[INDOLOGY] "Puspika"

[Péter-Dániel Szántó]

Fleuron, surely?

On Sat, May 6, 2017 at 2:35 PM, Nagaraj Paturi via INDOLOGY <
indology at list.indology.info> wrote:

> Now when I see that word origin for colophon has got to do with the peak
> of a hill, I began to think that those who coined pushpikaa had a bud,
> the tip of a stem in mind and probably they thought that this, a bud,
> the tip of a stem  indicates, like peak of a hill,  the end /conclusion.
>
>
>
> On Sat, May 6, 2017 at 6:48 AM, Nagaraj Paturi <nagarajpaturi at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> To use such an emblem seems to be an influence of western manuscripts.
>>
>> On Sat, May 6, 2017 at 6:38 AM, Nagaraj Paturi <nagarajpaturi at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> It can possibly refer to the design /art work used in the manuscripts as
>>> a colophon.
>>>
>>> On Sat, May 6, 2017 at 3:45 AM, Tyler Williams via INDOLOGY <
>>> indology at list.indology.info> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Dear colleagues,
>>>>
>>>> Is anyone aware of a publication that addresses the etymology or use of
>>>> the term puṣpikā/puṣpakā as a closing formula of a text or manuscript? This
>>>> meaning is not attested in pre-modern North Indian vernaculars, and appears
>>>> to enter Hindi in the twentieth century via Sanskrit lexicography (i.e.
>>>> Syamsundardas, author of the *Hindī Śabda Sāgara, *appears to have
>>>> copied his entry for puspikā from Monier-Williams's dictionary). I've
>>>> checked a few sources on codicology that use the term, but they give no
>>>> information on the term itself.
>>>>
>>>> With thanks,
>>>>
>>>> Tyler Williams
>>>> University of Chicago
>>>>
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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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>> --
>> 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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> --
> 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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