[INDOLOGY] John Brough's 1980 article on Pali sak?ya niruttiy??

[Madhav Deshpande]

Thanks, Stella.  Will see if I can find that publication in our library.
Best,

Madhav



On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 12:26 PM, Stella Sandahl <ssandahl at sympatico.ca>wrote:

> Dear Christoph, Madhav and others,
> There is a neglected and very original interpretation of sakaya niruttiya
> (sorry about the lacking diacritics- mea culpa!) by Ronald Morton Smith:
> "What Was One's Own Language? Vinaya 2.139"  published in* Contacts
> between Cultures: South Asia 2 (Selected Papers from the 33rd International
> Congress of Asian and North African Studies (Toronto, August  15-25, 1990)
> Lewiston 1992*,  Ed. K.
> L. Koppedrayer, p. 240-241.
> Best
> Stella
> --
> Stella Sandahl
> ssandahl at sympatico.ca
>
>
>
> On 2013-02-24, at 10:02 AM, christoph.emmrich at utoronto.ca wrote:
>
> Dear Madhav,
>
> As a note rather than an answer to your question: you may already be aware
> of the most recent work on that phrase (and a discussion of Brough's
> views), Bryan Levman's article ?Sak?ya niruttiy? Revisited.? Bulletin des
> Études Indiennes 26-27 (2008-2009): 33-59.
>
> Warm regards,
> Christoph
>
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> Quoting Madhav Deshpande <mmdesh at umich.edu>:
>
> Dear Indologists,
>
>
>     If any one has access to an electronic copy of John Brough's article
>
> on "sak?ya niruttiy?", please send it to me as an attachment.  I am
>
> interested in the discussion of the Pali word sakkata used by Buddhaghosa
>
> and others to refer to Sanskrit.  Looks like this word would come from
>
> Sanskrit satk?ta, rather than from sa?sk?ta.  The latter appears in Pali as
>
> sa?khata.  What I found interesting is that satk?t?m v?cam appears as a
>
> variant of sa?sk?t?m v?cam in the manuscripts of R?m?ya?a [Sundarak???a
>
> 28.17-18], where Hanuman is wondering that should he speak to S?t? in
>
> sa?sk?t??/satk?t?? v?cam like a Brahmin, she would take him for R?va?a and
>
> would be frightened.  The critical edition of R?m?ya?a selects the reading
>
> sa?sk?t?m, and hence this passage is taken as one of the early reference to
>
> the usage of the word sa?sk?ta in relation to a language.  However, the
>
> reading satk?t?m is there in several manuscripts, and would seem to match
>
> the Pali/Prakrit usage of sakkata/sakkaya to refer to Sanskrit.  K. R.
>
> Norman refers to Brough's article, but I have not had access to it.  Any
>
> other occurrences of satk?ta in reference to Sanskrit?
>
>
> Madhav Deshpande
>
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Madhav M. Deshpande
Professor of Sanskrit and Linguistics
Department of Asian Languages and Cultures
202 South Thayer Street, Suite 6111
The University of Michigan
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