Re: [INDOLOGY] Concerning micchā mi dukkaḍam

[Madhav Deshpande]

Thanks, Professor Karashima, for these references.

Madhav Deshpande

On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 11:32 PM, Seishi Karashima via INDOLOGY <
indology at list.indology.info> wrote:

> 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
>
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>
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