Re: [INDOLOGY] Translation of yaṣṭihastaya

[Madhav Deshpande]

Hello Harry,

     What were their suggestions?  Can you share them with us?

Madhav

On Sat, Oct 29, 2016 at 9:55 AM, Harry Spier <hspier.muktabodha at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Thank you to Corinna Wessels-Mevissen and Nivedita Rout who replied
> off-list.
>
> Harry Spier
>
> On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 8:22 PM, Harry Spier <hspier.muktabodha at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> 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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