[INDOLOGY] sUcI-kaTAha-nyAya

[Agathe Keller]

Dear colleagues, in and off list, **many many thanks**

Agathe


> On 9 Apr 2018, at 18:26, Christophe Vielle <christophe.vielle at uclouvain.be> wrote:
> 
> It is in the vol. 1 p. 53:
> https://archive.org/stream/handfulofpopular01jacoiala#page/52/mode/2up <https://archive.org/stream/handfulofpopular01jacoiala#page/52/mode/2up>
> 
> Cf.
> JACOB George [pt. 1]. A handful of popular maxims current in Sanskrit literature. 1907 -- https://archive.org/details/handfulofpopular01jacoiala <https://archive.org/details/handfulofpopular01jacoiala>
> [pt. 2]. A second handful of popular maxims current in Sanskrit literature. 1909.-- https://archive.org/details/handfulofpopular02jacoiala <https://archive.org/details/handfulofpopular02jacoiala> --
> 
>  [pt. 3]. A third handful of popular maxims current in Sanskrit literature. 1911.-- https://archive.org/details/handfulofpopular03jacoiala <https://archive.org/details/handfulofpopular03jacoiala>
> 
> This nyāya is not given in Kane's list, HdhS 5/2, pp. 1339-1351 (section VII - Puurvamiimaa.msaa and Dharmazaastra, pp. 1152-1351, Appendix on Nyaayas)
> https://archive.org/stream/HistoryOfDharmasastraancientAndMediaevalReligiousAndCivilLawV.5.2/Kane_A-History-of-Dharmasastra-v5-2_1962#page/n667/mode/2up <https://archive.org/stream/HistoryOfDharmasastraancientAndMediaevalReligiousAndCivilLawV.5.2/Kane_A-History-of-Dharmasastra-v5-2_1962#page/n667/mode/2up>
> Nor in Kishori Lal Sarkar, The Mimamsa Rules of Interpretation as Applied to Hindu Law, Tagore Law Lectures for 1905, Calcutta, 1909
> 
> But see no. 387 here:
> https://sanskritdocuments.org/doc_z_misc_major_works/nyaayaavalii.html?lang=sa <https://sanskritdocuments.org/doc_z_misc_major_works/nyaayaavalii.html?lang=sa>
> which corresponds to what is said in the list given in APTE Practical dictionary, Appendix E (A Collection of Sanskrit Popular Maxims).
> 
>> Le 9 avr. 2018 à 15:53, Krishnaprasad G via INDOLOGY <indology at list.indology.info <mailto:indology at list.indology.info>> a écrit :
>> 
>> Please refer
>> A handful of popular maxims current in Sanskrit literature
>> Available on Archives.org <http://archives.org/> in 3 parts combined to one
>> 
>> On Mon 9 Apr, 2018, 7:20 PM Agathe Keller via INDOLOGY, <indology at list.indology.info <mailto:indology at list.indology.info>> wrote:
>> Dear all,
>> 
>> I find this expression (sūcī-kaṭāha-nyāya) in an early 17th century mathematical commentary (Kṛṣṇa’s commentary on Bhāskara’s Bijagaṇita), and Monier Williams tells me that this is the ‘rule of the needle and the caldron’ by which easier things are done first. Can anyone tell me the story behind this expression, and also if you have met this phrase in other scholarly contexts?
>> 
>> any insights and references will certainly be helpful
>> 
>> yours,
>> 
>> 
>> Agathe
>> 
>> 
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