Re: [INDOLOGY] Translation of yaṣṭihastaya

[Dipak Bhattacharya]

Could anyone inform me about the publication of the Aangirasakalpa
Best
DB

On Tue, Nov 8, 2016 at 4:50 PM, Roland Steiner
<steiner at staff.uni-marburg.de> wrote:
>
>> *PW: f. nom. act. von 1. yaj P. 3,3,110, Sch. wohl fehlerhaft für iṣṭi. *
>> *pw: f. nom. act. von 1. yaj. Richtig iṣṭi. *
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>> Does *f. nom. act. von 1. yaj* (saying that a word is an abstract noun
>> from a specific root) not indicate/suggest a meaning?
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> It means that the correct word is iṣṭi (and not yaṣṭi, the reading of
> Boehtlinkg's source) which has the meaning "sacrificing". (By the way: "nom.
> act." = "nomen actionis" = "action noun" -> ktin).
>
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>> If it did not hint at the meaning of *sacrificing/sacrifice*, how did the
>> Monier-Williams dictionary
>> entries, supposedly based on the above entries, end up as the following?
>> Did M-W get the meaning from another source?
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>> *MW: sacrificing, (perhaps incorrect for 3. ishṭi.)*
>> *mw: sacrificing, Pāṇ. iii. 3, 110, Sch. (prob. w. r. for ishṭi)*
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> -- PW Vol. 1 (published 1852-55), s.v. 2. iṣṭi (von yaj) "f. Opferung, Opfer
> P. 3, 3, 95, Vârtt. 1. AK. 3, 4, 41. [...]"
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> "Opferung, Opfer" means "sacrificing, sacrifice".
>
> -- PW Vol. 6 (1868-1871), s.v. 2. yaṣṭi "f. nom. act. von 1. yaj P. 3, 3,
> 110, Sch. wohl fehlerhaft für iṣṭi."
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> -- MW (1872), s.v. 3. ishṭi, is, f. "sacrificing, sacrifice [...]"
>
> -- MW (1872), s.v. 1. yashṭi, is, f.: "sacrificing, (perhaps incorrect for
> 3. ishṭi.)"
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> -- pw Vol. 1 (1879), s.v. 3. iṣṭi: "f. Opfer [...]"
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> -- pw Vol. 4 (1883), s.v. 2 *yaṣṭi: "f. Nom. act. von 1. yaj. Richtig iṣṭi."
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> -  MW (1899), s.v. 3. iṣṭi: "f. sacrificing, sacrifice"
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> -- MW (1899), s.v. 1. yaṣṭi: f. "sacrificing Pāṇ.  iii, 3, 110 Sch. (prob.
> w.r. for iṣṭi).
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>
> Best,
>
> Roland Steiner
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