[INDOLOGY] Female name Bhaayi?

[Nagaraj Paturi]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kasturba_Gandhi

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savitribai_Phule

On Sun, Apr 23, 2017 at 2:07 PM, Nagaraj Paturi <nagarajpaturi at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I am sure, most of you must be aware of the female name ending bāī /bāyī/
> bāy /bā found in many contemporary northern particularly north-western
> languages.
>
> Pingree's version is possibly bāī >vāī, such a phonetic change b<>v being
> quite common many Indian languages.
>
> The bhāī version could possibly be a hyperstandardization or scribal
> error.
>
> On Sun, Apr 23, 2017 at 11:04 AM, Martin Gansten via INDOLOGY <
> indology at list.indology.info> wrote:
>
>> According to David Pingree (CESS A5: 335), the astrological author
>> Yādavasūri (early 17th century, Gujarat?) lived in a place called Vāī. In
>> support, Pingree quotes the author's *Tājikayogasudhānidhi* (16.27):
>>
>> śrīvatsasaṃjñād dvijapuṅgavādyaḥ śrīvāīnāmni supure ca sādhvī |
>> śrīyādavena vyaracīha tena sudhānidhis tājikayogapūrvaḥ ||
>>
>> This is neither metrically nor syntactically satisfactory. On examining a
>> manuscript of the text, I found that it read:
>>
>> śrīvatsasaṃjñād dvijapuṅgavād yaṃ śrībhāyināmnī suṣuve ca sādhvī |
>> śrīyādavena vyaracīha tena sudhānidhis tājikayogapūrvaḥ ||
>>
>> Yādavasūri thus appears to give his mother's name as *śrībhāyi*. I have
>> not come across this name before -- can anyone confirm that it exists?
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>> Martin Gansten
>>
>>
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> Nagaraj Paturi
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> Hyderabad, Telangana, INDIA.
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> Former Senior Professor of Cultural Studies
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> FLAME School of Communication and FLAME School of  Liberal Education,
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> (Pune, Maharashtra, INDIA )
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-- 
Nagaraj Paturi

Hyderabad, Telangana, INDIA.

Former Senior Professor of Cultural Studies

FLAME School of Communication and FLAME School of  Liberal Education,

(Pune, Maharashtra, INDIA )


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