Re: [INDOLOGY] Meaning of Paṭa?

[George Thompson]

Hello Don,

This also may be relevant to your question.

Mayrhofer in his KEWA [sv:  paTaH (sorry, Dominik, we are philologists
here, for the most part, and we have an incorrigible habit of displaying
our  knowledge of Latin rhetorical short-hand); none of us talk like this,
of course!]:

Mayrhofer there, glossing paTa as "woven cloth, garment, blanket," refers
also to three neuter nouns: paTalam: 1 = cover, veil; 2 = heap, mass; 3 =
basket.

He also cites a masculine noun paTalaH = section of a book.

The propetymology of these words are difficult


On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 2:34 PM, Richard Salomon
<rsalomon at u.washington.edu>wrote:

> Don,
>
> Have a look at D.C. Sircar's Indian Epigraphy, pp. 66-67; also my Indian
> Epigraphy p. 132, for further references. It has been suggested (I don't
> remember exactly where -- this may go all the way back to Buehler's
> Indische Palaeographie) that archival copies of land grants were kept on
> cloth.
>
> Rich
>
> Rich Salomon
>
>
> On 10/31/2013 8:41 AM, Donald R Davis wrote:
>
>> Dear Colleagues,
>>
>> I am working on the /Smṛticandrikā/ of Devaṇṇabhaṭṭa and its discussion
>> of documents.  Several passages in the sub-section on /rājaśāsana/
>> enjoin a king to inscribe a land grant “/paṭe vā tāmrapaṭṭe vā/.”
>>
>> Yājñavalkya (1.319) is the first, I think.  Most translators have
>> rendered /paṭa/ here as “cloth,” which makes no sense to me, as I have
>>
>> never seen a cloth inscription of this sort and it seems an unusually
>> non-durable material for an important inscription.  So, /Amarakośa/ (and
>>
>> MW lists this, too) gives several synonyms, all of which point to the
>> chirauli/chironji nut (Buchanania Latifolia) or, I suppose, its bark.
>>
>> Can anyone help me identify /paṭa/ here more certainly?  I don’t know
>>
>> the first thing about trees and this appears to be a common enough tree
>> in India and other parts of Asia, but is the bark of this tree meant
>> here?  Thanks for any help or leads you may have.
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Don Davis
>>
>> Dept. of Asian Studies
>>
>> University of Texas at Austin
>>
>>
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