[INDOLOGY] verb question

Howard Resnick hr at ivs.edu
Wed Aug 24 18:19:32 UTC 2016


Greetings,

	The Bhāgavatam 10.13.64 states that catur-mukha Brahmā “praised [Kṛṣṇa] with words of praise.” The Sanskrit here is ‘ailata īlayā.’

	Under īl or īlā, MW refers us to īḍ. Although MW does not give īlā or any verb forms of īl as a form of īḍ (there is another īl given in the causative, īlayati, ‘to move’), it seems safe to take both ailata and īlayā as derived from īl as an alternate form of īḍ. Similarly Śrīdhara Svāmī in his commentary glosses the words as follows: īlayā vācā, ailata astaut.

	Question: how common in Sanskrit literature are derivates of īl as a form of īḍ.

	Thanks,

Howard





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