Re: [INDOLOGY] Translation of yaṣṭihastaya

Tue Nov 8 07:05:41 UTC 2016

Apologies, I should have been more careful and used the gerund form
*sacrificing* instead of *sacrifice *in my mail. Not that it matters, but
is there a big difference between the two? Monier-Williams seems to use
both synomously, as he lists both forms in the same meaning under इष्टि.
[p= 169,3] [L=29650] f. sacrificing , sacrifice

So Böhtlingk did remove the reference to A 3.3.110 in the second edition,
and the Monier-Williams translation of the original meaning persists even
in the 2008 revision! But why did Böhtlingk still have a meaning for *yaṣṭi*
as *nom. act. von *(*nomen abstractum* from?) *yaj*, instead of removing
the meaning altogether if he was sure that the reading was erroneous? What
does this mean?

On 8 November 2016 at 11:39, Walter Slaje <slaje at kabelmail.de> wrote:

> I could not trace the meaning „sacrifice“ anywhere in Boethlingk. He
> himself presumed that *yaṣṭi* might be an error for the correct word
> formation *iṣṭi* (in the text available to him at the time). Later, in
> his second Petrograde Dictionary (pw) he explicitly points to the
> erroneous reading of *yaṣṭi *by stating "richtig" ("correct") is *iṣṭi*.
>
>
>
> PW
>
> 2. *yaṣṭi* f.  nom. act. von 1. *yaj*  P. 3, 3, 110, Sch.  wohl fehlerhaft
> für *iṣṭi*.
>
>
>
> (MW’s translation)
>
> sacrificing Pāṇ.  3-3, 110 Sch. (prob. w.r. for iṣṭi).
>
>
>
> (pw)
>
> 2. *yaṣṭi*  f. Nom. act. von 1. *yaj*. Richtig *iṣṭi*.
>
>
>
> *yaṣṭi *in the meaning of sacrifice was however recorded by Edgerton in
> Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit usage:
>
> (Edgerton)
>
> 1. *yaṣṭi* f. sacrifice. Mvu iii.145.20; (= Skt *iṣṭi*)
>
>
>
> Best,
>
> WS
>
>
>
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>
> 2016-11-08 2:09 GMT+01:00 Nityanand Misra <nmisra at gmail.com>:
>
>> The *Viśvaprakāśa* lists one of the meanings of *yaṣṭi* as flagstaff (
>> *dhvajadaṇḍa*, as opposed to a simple staff or *daṇḍa*).
>> *yaṣṭirhāralatāśastrabhedayordhvajadaṇḍake* (*ṭadvikam*, verse 23)
>>
>> Unless a usage or *Kośa* citation can be traced, the meaning of
>> “sacrifice” given by Böhtlingk for the word *yaṣṭi *needs to be taken
>> with a grain of salt. The Nyāsa, a commentary on the Kāśikā, has the
>> example as *kāmiṣṭim* and not *kāṃ yaṣṭiṃ *(see attached) under A
>> 3.3.110. For the “sacrifice” meaning, one needs a suffix in *bhāva. ktin
>> *is such a suffix, but due to A 6.1.15 (*vacisvapiyajādīnāṃ kiti*), *yaj*
>> + *ktin *will result in *iṣṭi*. It is possible that there was a scribal
>> error or an error on part of Böhtlingk which led to *kāmiṣṭim* being
>> mistaken as *kāṃ yaṣṭiṃ *in the commentary he referred to.
>>
>> The *Śabdakalpadruma* has this to say on the derivation of *yaṣṭi*: *yaj*
>> + *bāhulakāt tiḥ*, *iti uṇādivṛttau ujjvaladattaḥ* (4.179). This makes
>> sense, as with *tiḥ* the *samprasāraṇa* by A 6.1.15 would not take
>> place.
>>
>> On 29 October 2016 at 23:35, Harry Spier <hspier.muktabodha at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>> From: Corinna Wessels-Mevissen <corinnawessels at yahoo.de>
>>> Date: Sat, Oct 29, 2016 at 12:31 AM
>>> Subject: Re: [INDOLOGY] Translation of yaṣṭihastaya
>>> To: Harry Spier <hspier.muktabodha at gmail.com>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Hello Harry Spier,
>>>
>>> I did my PhD on the early iconography of the aṣṭadikpālas (book is
>>> available on Academia: https://www.academia.edu/30295
>>> 35/The_Gods_of_the_Directions_in_Ancient_India_Origin_and_Ea
>>> rly_Development_in_Art_and_Literature_until_c._1000_A.D._), and Vāyu is
>>> very often seen as holding a flagstaff. This is in fact his most prominent
>>> attribute. As far as I remember, *yaṣṭi* was not mentioned in those
>>> texts, but only dhvaja or patākā, and the respective images show the god
>>> with a banner – mostly with the flag portion being a long streamer.
>>>
>>> Hope this helps somehow.
>>>
>>> Corinna Wessels-Mevissen
>>> ------------------------------
>>> *Von:* Harry Spier <hspier.muktabodha at gmail.com>
>>> *An:* Indology <indology at list.indology.info>
>>> *Gesendet:* 2:22 Samstag, 29.Oktober 2016
>>> *Betreff:* [INDOLOGY] Translation of yaṣṭihastaya
>>>
>>> Dear list members:
>>>
>>> A gāyatrī mantra mantra to Vāyu is:
>>> sarvaprāṇāya vidmahe
>>> yaṣṭihastāya dhīmahi
>>> tan no vāyuḥ pracodayāt
>>> I've seen a translation of yaṣṭihastāya as "holding the mace" but are
>>> statues or pictoral representations of Vāyu, and if so  with a mace?
>>> but Monier-Williams also  has a meaning of yaṣṭi as "sacrificing" which
>>> he says comes from a commentator on Panini 3-3-110 .
>>>  By any chance could someone point out the commentator and point me to
>>> the passage MW refers to.
>>> Also based on that definition of yaṣṭi does a translation of
>>> yaṣṭihastāya as "to the one who sacrifices with his hands" make sense.
>>> refering to the wind fanning the flames of the sacrifice.
>>> Thanks,
>>> Harry Spier
>>>
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