bhautika (-brahmacaarin)

[gruenendahl]

Many thanks to everyone on and off the list for your help with
"bhautika", especially to Joerg Gengnagel for sharing his notes on
various Saiva texts, according to which a bhautika
- is a brahmacaarin for a limited (saavadhika) period of time
- appreciates bhuuti (bhuutikaama). It seems that bhuuti "welfare /
material wealth", and appreciation of it, are to not be taken as
characteristic of the temporary brahmacarya, but rather of the
subsequent stage [as a householder].


Best regards

Reinhold Gruenendahl


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Dr. Reinhold Gruenendahl
Niedersaechsische Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek
Fachreferat sued- und suedostasiatische Philologien
(Dept. of Indology)

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