Indian epistemic terms

[Lars Martin Fosse]

Harsha Dehejia wrote:

> An important concept that is overlooked by epistemologists is 
> that of DRISHTI or visual knowledge.
> 
> While PASHYATI is a verb there is no verb like DRASHYATI. 
> This is  the beginning of an inquiry into visual knowledge.

I am not sure if this is a relevant argument. Pazyati belongs to the
conjugation of the verb dRz. This is a suppletive conjugation where the root
dRz handles the aorist, perfect, the future and the absolutive and
infinitive, whereas the present and the imperfect is handled by paz (to be
compared with Latin specio, the s being a "loose" s which comes and goes in
some Indo-European verbs. 

Thus we have pazyati apazyat, but adrAkSIt, dadarza, drakSyati

It is a purely grammatical phenomenon, no conceptual arguments can be drawn
from it.

Best regards,

Lars Martin
 

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Indology [mailto:INDOLOGY at liverpool.ac.uk] On Behalf Of 
> Harsha Dehejia
> Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 11:09 PM
> To: INDOLOGY at liverpool.ac.uk
> Subject: Re: Indian epistemic terms
> 
> Friends:
> 
> An important concept that is overlooked by epistemologists is 
> that of DRISHTI or visual knowledge.
> 
> While PASHYATI is a verb there is no verb like DRASHYATI. 
> This is  the beginning of an inquiry into visual knowledge.
> 
> I am trying to develop this concept further.
> 
> Regareds.
> 
> Harsha
> Harsha V. Dehejia
> Professor of Indian Studies, College of Humanities Carleton 
> University, Ottawa, ON. Canada.