deyadharma

[Arlo Griffiths]

Thank you Harry. Can you (or anyone else) supply this in pdf? Sorry, no Indological library at my disposal here.
Best wishes,
Arlo Griffiths

> Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2010 09:09:38 +0100
> Subject: Re: [INDOLOGY] deyadharma
> From: falk at zedat.fu-berlin.de
> To: arlogriffiths at HOTMAIL.COM
> 
> Hi Arlo,
> see G. Bhattacharya, Dana-deyadharma, donation in early Buddhist records.
> Investigating Indian Art. Berlin 1987: 39-60.
> Best, Harry
> 
> 
> > Is anybody aware of any discussion in the primary or secondary literature
> > as to the way the term deyadharma was traditionally analyzed/understood?
> > How does this compound get to have the pragmatic meaning of 'meritorious
> > gift'? How has the tradition itself understood the value of dharma in this
> > compound? I have seen Edgerton's gloss in BHSD, something like 'having the
> > nature of something to be given' (quoted from memory), but I wonder if
> > this corresponds to traditional interpretations, and whether the element
> > deya might not simply have meant 'gift' in this context (rather than
> > 'something to be given').
> > Thank you,
> > Arlo Griffiths (EFEO/Jakarta)
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