bhAgavatapurANa - translation question - what does zUla mean?

[Sven Sellmer]

Apte in his PSED s.v. aTTa gives the Mbh expression aTTazUlA janapadAH and 
quotes NIlakaNTha: aTTaM annaM zUlaM vikreyaM yeSAM te. I guess the rest can 
be found in N's commentary, too.

Best wishes,

Sven

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "McComas Taylor" <mccomas.taylor at ANU.EDU.AU>
To: <INDOLOGY at liverpool.ac.uk>
Sent: Monday, June 25, 2007 4:49 AM
Subject: bhAgavatapurANa - translation question - what does zUla mean?


> Dear colleagues
>
> The description of the Kali yuga in BhP (0.1.36, paNDita-pustakAlaya ed.) 
> states that:
>
> aTTazUlA janapadAH zivazUlA dvijAtayaH . kAminyaH kezazUlinyaH sambhavanti 
> kalAviha
>
> Tagare's translation says 'In this Kali age, the country will be full of 
> people who sell food, BrAhmaNas, selling the Vedas and women living by 
> prostitution' (lxxv).
>
> Can anyone help me get 'selling food' out of aTTazUla, 'selling Vedas' out 
> of zivazUla and 'prostitution/selling hair' out of kezazUla?
>
> thanks in advance
>
> McComas
>
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