[INDOLOGY] Concerning micchā mi dukkaḍam

[Seishi Karashima]

Dear colleagues,

In verses of Middle Indic, Skt. *me* becomes *mi* (m.c.), cf. Pischel 1900
§§ 85, 415, 417, 418; BHSG §§ 20.13, 20.63.


Schubring (*Die Lehre der Jainas**: nach den alten Quellen dargestellt*,
Berlin 1935: W. de Gruyter  = *The Doctrine of the Jainas: Described after
the Old Sources*, Delhi 1962: Motilal Banarsidass, § 159 ) wrote *tassa
micchā **me** dukkaḍaṃ*, and Caillat translated *tassa micchā **me**
dukkaḍaṃ* as "my fault < has been due> to error" (Caillat *Atonements in
the Ancient Ritual of the Jaina Monks*, Ahmedabad 1975, p. 133 = *Les
expiations dans le rituel ancien des religieux jaina*, Paris 1965: Boccard,
p. 155).


I think, therefore, that *mi* in the phrase *micchā mi dukkaḍam* is a
variant of *mĕ* (< *me*), though probably not m.c.


Oberlies (*Āvaśyaka-Studien, Glossar ausgewählter Wörter zu E. Leumanns
,,Die Āvaśyaka-Erzählungen“*, Stuttgart 1993: F. Steiner, p. 134), however,
takes it as “< *mithyā asmi duṣkṛtam*”, which is, to my opinion,
implausible. See the attachment.


The phrases quoted in Oberlies’s glossary clearly demonstrates that the
phrase was not interpreted as “*mā + icchāmi*”.


Cf. also Willem B. Bollée, *Bhadrabāhu Bṛhat-kalpa-niryukti and Sanghadāsa
Bṛhat-kalpa-bhāṣya: Romanized and Metrically Revised Version, Notes from
Related Texts and a Selective Glossary*, Stuttgart 1998: F. Steiner, vol. 3
(Beiträge zur Südasienforschung, Bd. 181.3), p. 188.


With best wishes,

Seishi Karashima

IRIAB, Soka University, Tokyo

https://sokauniversity.academia.edu/SeishiKarashima

http://iriab.soka.ac.jp/en/index.html


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