[INDOLOGY] Skt vocabulary from the title pages and prefaces of Sanskrit editions

[Nagaraj Paturi]

anka = mark , anka-karaNa = mark-making, mark-creating ankita - past
participle of anka

should not be surprising to give the meaning of printing

On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 7:39 PM, Camillo Formigatti via INDOLOGY <
indology at list.indology.info> wrote:

> Dear Dominik,
>
> Many thanks for this list, it is very helpful!
>
> I would add the following two terms:
>
> yantra, printing press
>
> aṅkita, printed (or typeset?)
>
> I'm not sure about the last one, actually printed should be mudrita, but
> since the term aṅkita occurs both in the title page of the 1814 Calcutta
> (Khidirapura) edition of Bhāravi’s Kirātārjunīya with Mallinātha’s
> commentary printed with movable types, as well as in the colophon of an
> 1861 lithography of the Śūdrakamalākara, I believe it ought to mean printed.
>
> I briefly discuss the term in my 2016 article on Sanskrit print, but
> leaving a question mark about the meaning. I would be grateful if any of
> you has a suggestion as to the meaning of this term.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Camillo
>
>
> Dr Camillo A. Formigatti
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> ------------------------------
> *From:* Dominik Wujastyk [wujastyk at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Saturday, January 28, 2017 8:52 PM
> *To:* Indology
> *Subject:* [INDOLOGY] Skt vocabulary from the title pages and prefaces of
> Sanskrit editions
>
> I did this little list of vocab list for my students:
>
>
>    - granthamālā series
>    - viracitam composed, written (suffixed to author's name)
>    - vyākhyā commentary (Y-viracitayā X-vyākhyayā "with the commentary
>    called X composed by Y")
>    - ākhyā called (X-ākhyavyākhyayā "with the commentary called X")
>    - upāhvaḥ called (signalling a surname)
>    - saṃśodhitam edited
>    - vidyālayaḥ university, college
>    - prakāśakaḥ publisher
>    - saṃskaraṇa edition
>    - mūlyam price
>    - mudrakaḥ printer
>    - mudraṇālayaḥ printing office
>    - upodghātaḥ preface, introduction
>    - hastalikhitam manuscript
>    - pustakam book
>    - ādarśapustakam manuscript used for comparison or as a witness to the
>    text, exemplar
>    - sūcī index
>    - sūcīpatram index, contents page
>    - -mahodaya respected, professor
>    - prācīna old
>    - tāḍapatram palm leaf
>    - pustakālayaḥ library
>    - granthasaṅgrahaḥ library, book collection
>    - preṣita sent, posted
>    - sakāśāt samupalabdham received from him in person
>    - prāpta got, received
>    - saṃpādita completed
>    - kroḍapatram fragment, note
>    - ṭippaṇī note
>    - vivaraṇam commentary
>    - khaṇditapatram broken leaf
>    - pāṭhaḥ reading (as in, manuscript variant)
>    - pāṭhāntaram (variant reading)
>
>
> Additions?  Corrections?
>
> ​
> --
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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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