Re: [INDOLOGY] paṅgu / paṅku [2nd sending]

[Seishi Karashima]

Dear colleagues,

Both examples have nothing to do with *paṅku*~.


(1) The first example from the *Paumacariu*:

*katthūriya-paṅkuppaṅkiu* < *kastūrikā* (“musk”)+ *paṅka* (“unguent”) + *
*ut-paṅkita* (“besmeared”; cf. Naresh Kumar, *Apabhraṃśa-Hindi Dictionary*,
Nehru Nagar 1987: Indo-Vision Private Limited, vol. I, p. 124r, s.v.
*uppaṅkiya*; cf. also Skt. *paṅkayati* “besmears”).


(2) The second example from the *Sanatkumāracaritam*:

Jacobi’s edition (*Sanatkumāracaritam: Ein Abschnitt aus Haribhadras
Nemināthacaritam. Eine Jaina Legende in Apabhraṃśa*, hrsg. von Hermann
Jacobi, München 1921: Verlag der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften,
p. 37) in fact reads *sayala-mahivalaya-panku* (i.e. -*paṅku*). Only the
input data on the internet reads "*sayala-mahivalaya-pauku*". One must
discern "edition" made by the great scholar from "data" input by
somebody. *Sayala-mahivalaya-paṅku
*means “mud in the whole world” (“der Schlamm im ganzen Lande”, *ibid.*, p.
76). However, *paṅku* is a *nom. sg. masc. form* of *paṅka *in Apabhraṃśa.


Therefore, both examples quoted here are of *paṅka*: (1) *paṅka + u- *(*>
paṅku-*), (2) nom. sg. masc. *paṅku*.


With best regards,

Seishi Karashima

2017-08-21 1:51 GMT+09:00 Elliot Stern via INDOLOGY <
indology at list.indology.info>:

> Thank you for these references, but none of these are paṅku ‘lame’.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Elliot
>
>
> > On 20 Aug  2017, at 08:51, Rolf Heinrich Koch via INDOLOGY <
> indology at list.indology.info> wrote:
> >
> > Besides many quotations in Tamil-literature I know the following two
> references in Prakrit (Apabhraṃśa)-literature:
> >
> > 1. Svayambhu Paumacariu (Ramastory)
> >
> > 26.11.3: jo katthūriya-paṅkuppaṅkiu  jo ari-karihi ṇa ḍohevi sakkiu
>
> The semantic here is ‘mud’ or ‘slime’.
> >
> > 2. Sanatkumāracaritam (H. Jacobi)
> >
> > 546: ...valaya-panku….
>
> The edition reads … valaya-pauku ...
> >
> > 3.
> >
> > In Sri Lanka I came across the word paṅku meaning "share of (land
> etc.)".  This is probably of Tamil origin. Codrington: Ancient Land
> Tenure...,p. 15.
> >
> > If the word denotes a share of land, then the etymological discussion
> should also think about the 5-kuṭi-sized lands (pan-kuṭi), and we are back
> in the Sanskrit-world.
> >
> >
> > Best
> >
> > Heiner
> >
> >
> > Am 19.08.2017 um 22:18 schrieb Elliot Stern via INDOLOGY:
> >> I would like to draw on the collective manuscript reading experience of
> our list members. A Sanskrit word paṅgu is well known in dictionaries and
> printed texts. It denotes a ‘lame person’. In a passage of the ms of
> svaditaṅkaraṇī  (a palm leaf Malayalam script ms), a commentary on
> nyāyakaṇikā, this word appears only as paṅku with many repetitions in a
> long comment on a line in vidhivivekaḥ.. It is possible to argue that this
> reading paṅku should be corrected to paṅgu, because paṅku and paṅgu are
> both pronounced the same in the Malayalam language (i.e., the k is
> pronounced as g). This argument, however, seems weak to me. First, other
> words like prasaṅga always appear as expected in the svaditaṅkaraṇī ms.
> Second, a most likely 16th century devanāgarī ms of nyāyakaṇikā certainly
> reads paṅku in two of the three occurrences of paṅgu later in the
> commentary, and probably in all three of them (the first fifty or so folia
> of this ms, that would include the passage on which svaditaṅkarraṇī
> comments, are not available). In two of these instances, we see a
> correction to paṅgu, but one stands uncorrected. Third, the ms. of
> juṣadhvaṅkaraṇī (also a palm leaf Malayalam script ms) reads paṅku a few
> times, and also consistently renders words like prasaṅga as expected.
> >>
> >> I have two questions. First, have you seen the reading paṅku,
> especially in mss not written in South Indian scripts? Second, are there
> any etymological or other discussions of the term paṅgu / paṅku not
> referenced in standard works like Burrows' and Emeneau’s DED or the
> Turners’  CDIAL?
> >>
> >> Elliot M.Stern
> >>
> >>
> >>
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