term for actors

[Michael Witzel]

Try the article on this word by the late FBJ Kuiper, see:

  F.B.J. Kuiper, Selected Writings on Indian Linguistics and  
Philology, ed. by A. Lubotsky, M.S. Oort, M. Witzel, Amsterdam-  
Atlanta: Rodopi 1997

Cheers,
M.W.


On Jan 8, 2009, at 5:08 PM, mkapstei at UCHICAGO.EDU wrote:

> Among Skt. terms for "actor" we find
> zailuu.sa, derived (via the a.n-pratyaya
> used to form patronymics) from ziluu.sa, which
> is a name for the Bilva tree.
>
> Is there an explanation for this
> association of which any of you might
> be aware?
>
> Matthew T. Kapstein
> Numata Visiting Professor of Buddhist Studies
> The University of Chicago Divinity School
>
> Directeur d'études
> Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris

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