Shorter messages (was: Peoples and Languages)

[Dominik Wujastyk]

Kamal Adhikary said:
> 
>             
> Dear colleagues:
> 	Recently, Dr. Tariq Rahman, a scholar from Pakistan has given a  
> beautiful article to ASNIC.  The article is too long to post here. I do 
> not like to fill up your mailbox with one article.

[...]

I should like to thank Mr Adhikary publicly for his courtesy.  The above
approach is greatly needed, now that INDOLOGY is so large and busy.

If you have a long posting (more than a couple of screenfuls), please
feel free to post an announcement about it to INDOLOGY, but keep the
long message off the daily list.  Make it available via some other
network method, like local public ftp.  If you have absolutely no
alternative, contact me and I'll see if I can put it on the INDOLOGY web
page.

Please read and meditate on the recent posting by Chris Wooff about
overflowing mailboxes and bounced subscriptions.  He raises vital
matters about network usage and the future viability of INDOLOGY.

Thanks

Dominik Wujastyk







> From Peter at pwyz.rhein.de 23 1996 Feb +0100 00:02:00
Date: 23 Feb 1996 00:02:00 +0100
From: Peter at pwyz.rhein.de (Peter Wyzlic)
Subject: Re: Sari in skt litterature
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In article <Pine.SOL.3.91.960221125106.24178D-100000 at seawolf.rs.itd.umich.edu>
you wrote about "Re: Sari in skt litterature":

>To add some further references to ShaaTaka, it certainly occurs
>in Patanjali's Mahaabhaazya:  asya suutrasya shaaTakaM vaya (ref???).

To be found in Mahabhashya on P. 1.1.45. BTW there are various occurrences  
of "zaaTii" or "zaaTaka" in Patanjali's work. The passage you are alluding  
to makes it clear that "zaaTaka" (masculine here) used to denote a  
manufactured piece of cloth and not raw material. Patanjali quotes in his  
remark to Varttika 16 on "zivasuutra" 1 an example where "zaaTaka" is  
connected with Mathura: "teneva zaaTakaan aacchaadayamaano ye  
mathuraayaam" (ed. Kielhorn/Abhyankar, Vol. 1, p. 19). More references in  
Pathak/Chitrao: _Word-index to Patanjali's Vyakarana-Mahabhasya_, p. 1020,  
sub vocibus. Compare also Albrecht Weber, in: _Indische Studien_, Vol. 13,  
1873, p. 467.

The Dhammapada knows brahmanical ascetics who wear "ajinasaaTii"  
(Dhammapada v. 394) made from the leather of a deer (?). Other derivatives  
like "saaTa", "saaTikaa" or "saaTiya" are noted elsewhere in the Pali  
canon (source PED). A short peep into the _PaaiasaddamahaNNavo_ indicates
that the Jaina canon yields references for "saaDa" and "saaDiaa", too.

It seems that this sort of cloth (supposing "zaaTii", "zaaTaka" etc.  
denote the same) became popular in "early" postvedic times (the  
_Vaidikapadaanukramakoza_ quotes only two references in "late" UpaniSads  
as, e.g., SaMnyaasa-UpaniSad).

\bye
Peter Wyzlic