Asoka: Roads and Animals

[Patrick Olivelle]

The term is sūpa -- the expression sūpātthāya (Sk. sūpārthāya) -- for the sake of sūpa (probably more like stew, broth).

PO



On Aug 17, 2011, at 2:34 PM, Jo wrote:

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> Dear List,
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> Since I’m dying of curiosity, if I may ask, can someone tell me what is the edict’s term for ‘curry’?
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> Anthropologists are also skeptical of such number codes and have published about them-- but sorry, no references come to mind.
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> Thanks
> Joanna
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> " Obliquely, the Ist Rock Edict: "Formerly in the kitchen of king Devanampriya Priyadarśin many hundred thousands of animals (bahūni
> prāṇasatasahāsrani) were killed daily for the sake of curry"
> [Hultzsch, 1925, p. 2]."
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> Sounds to me that one ought to apply the rule David Henige gives for premodern figures above ten thousand in his Numbers from Nowhere: The American Indian Contact Population Debate: just as a beginning, knock off the last digit.  Henige deals with evidence from a lot of other places besides the Americas, though as best I recall not South Asia. 
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> Allen
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> Allen W. Thrasher, Ph.D.
> Asian Division, Library of Congress
> Washington, DC 20540-4810
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