Re: [INDOLOGY] textual source for nirvāṇa-mastaka

[Madhav Deshpande]

Thanks, Tim.  Looking forward to your edition of this text.

Madhav

On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 11:56 PM, Lubin, Tim <LubinT at wlu.edu> wrote:

> Madhav,
> It is very hard to say whether there could be any connection since other
> occurrences are not known, but it seems unlikely to me.  The
> *Atharvaśiras* in its extant form(s) includes, near the end, two stanzas
> from the Atharvaveda that justify the name of the text itself:
>
> *7.2     mūrdhānam asya saṃsīvyātharvā hṛdayaṃ ca yat | *
>
> *mastiṣkād ūrdhvaṃ prairayat   pavamāno ’dhi śīrṣṇaḥ || *
>
> *(= PS 16.59.9 / ~ŚS 10.2.26)*
>
> *7.3     tad vā atharvaṇaḥ śiro   devakośaḥ samubjitaḥ | *
>
> *tat prāṇo abhi rakṣati    śiro annam atho manaḥ || *
>
> *(~ PS 16.59.10 [rakṣatu, śriyam] / ŚS 10.2. 27)*
>
> PS = Paippalādasaṃhitā, ŚS = Śaunakasaṃhitā.  Some recensions have these
> in the 6th section.
> Older references to the “Atharvaśiras” (e.g., in the Mahābhārata and in
> sūtras) seem to refer to a mantra text of some sort, thought to encapsulate
> the essence of the Atharvāṅgirasaḥ.  My edition will include a full
> discussion.
> Atharvaśirṣa is just a synonymous name of the text, in common use later,
> esp. in Maharashtra where a set of five distinct devotional works
> circulated under the names Rudrātharvaśīrṣa (or Śivātharvaśīrṣa),
> Devyatharvaśīrṣa, etc.
>
> Best,
>
> Tim
>
> Timothy Lubin
> Professor of Religion and Adjunct Professor of Law
> Chair of the Department of Religion
> Washington and Lee University
> Lexington, Virginia 24450
>
> http://home.wlu.edu/~lubint
> http://wlu.academia.edu/TimothyLubin
> http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=930949
> ḷ
>
>
>
> From: INDOLOGY <indology-bounces at list.indology.info> on behalf of Madhav
> Deshpande via INDOLOGY <indology at list.indology.info>
> Reply-To: Madhav Deshpande <mmdesh at umich.edu>
> Date: Friday, January 13, 2017 at 4:13 PM
> To: David and Nancy Reigle <dnreigle at gmail.com>
> Cc: Indology <indology at list.indology.info>
> Subject: Re: [INDOLOGY] textual source for nirvāṇa-mastaka
>
> I wonder if this term can be compared with names of the Upanishads like
> Atharvaśiras and Atharvaśīrṣa.
>
> Madhav Deshpande
> Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
>
> On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 3:10 PM, David and Nancy Reigle via INDOLOGY <
> indology at list.indology.info> wrote:
>
>> Has anyone seen the Sanskrit term nirvāṇa-mastaka in use? It appears in *A
>> Dictionary in Sanscrit and English*, by H. H. Wilson, 2nd ed., 1832 (not
>> in his 1st ed., 1819), defined simply as "liberation." From there it was
>> copied in the Petersburg Wörterbuch (defined as Erlösung) and in the
>> Monier-Williams dictionary (defined as liberation, deliverance), both of
>> which give only Wilson as their source for this term. It is not in the
>> *Śabda-kalpa-druma*, but is in the *Vācaspatyam*, defined as: nirvāṇam
>> nirvṛtir mastakam iva yatra. Various searches by me have so far failed
>> to turn up this term in a Sanskrit text. Hoping that one of you has seen it
>> in use and can give a textual source for it.
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> David Reigle
>> Colorado, U.S.A.
>>
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