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@satellite

A satellite word is a descriptive that has been added to a noun in a "main sentence".

Example. This is a "main sentence" —

zakunim pazyAmi शकुनिं पश्यामि "I see a bird"

Now if we make the nounbase kRSNa- कृष्णॱ "black" describe the zakunim शकुनिम् word in that sentence we get the complex sentence —

kRSNaM zakunim pazyAmi कृष्णं शकुनिं पश्यामि "I see a black bird"

In this complex sentence the word kRSNam कृष्णम् is a satellite of zakunim शकुनिम्. Instead of using one such complex sentence, we might have used two sentences, with no change of meaning —

zakunim pazyAmi | kRSNaz zakuniH
शकुनिं पश्यामि । कृष्णः शकुनिः "I see a bird. The bird is black."