NEW LIGHT ON THE VERSE 112 OF THE KRSIPARÄSARA
NEW LIGHT ON THE VERSE 112 OF THE KRSIPARÄSARA
Author(s): Gyula WojtillaSubject(s): Cultural history, Theoretical Linguistics, Lexis, Other Language Literature, 19th Century, Philology, Theory of Literature
Published by: Akadémiai Kiadó
Keywords: Krsiparasara; pasika; phälikä; paccanî; präjam; plough; ploughshare; goad; The Library of Congress; Eugene Hotaling;
Summary/Abstract: The description of the plough in the Krsiparasara has been a puzzle for generations of Sanskrit philologists. What especially pained me was the disfunctional character of this description: among the eight essential parts the ploughshare was missing. The turning up of an until now unknown manuscript from The Library of Congress has brought a basic change: it contains the expected reading phalika “ploughshare” for pasika an otherwise meaningful term “rope” that could have been adjusted to the context only by rather strained explanations.
Journal: Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae
- Issue Year: 54/2001
- Issue No: 2-3
- Page Range: 187-189
- Page Count: 3
- Language: English
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