Re: [INDOLOGY] gang zag and puruṣa

[Mark McClish]

Thanks to Chris Haskett and Roland Steiner for clearing this matter up. I’ve passed the information along to my colleague.

Best,
Mark McClish

> On Oct 30, 2018, at 3:10 AM, Roland Steiner via INDOLOGY <indology at list.indology.info> wrote:
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> In his article
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> "A propos the Term gtsug lag" (first published in: Tibetan Studies. Proceedings of the 7th Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies, Graz 1995, Vol. 1, ed. by Helmut Krasser, Michael Thorsten Much, Ernst Steinkellner, Helmut Tauscher, Wien 1997 {Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Philosophisch-historische Klasse, Denkschriften, 256. Band, pp. 347-354 = Michael Hahn: Schlüssel zum Lehrbuch der klassischen tibetischen Schriftsprache und Beiträge zur tibetischen Wortkunde [Miscellanea etymologica tibetica I-VI], Marburg 2003 [Indica et Tibetica. 10a], pp. 131-143),
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> Michael Hahn gives the following explanation (Hahn 1997, p. 352 = Hahn 2003, p. 140):
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> "gaṅ zag, rendering pudgala 'individual being': literally '(that which is first) completed and then decaying'"
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> Obviously, gaṅ zag is an attempted etymological translation pf pudgala/puṃgala (pūr, "to fill, fulfill", gaṅ ba "full" + gal, "to drop; to vanish, disappear", zag pa = gzag pa > 'dzag pa "to drop, drip, trickle; to flow out").
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> Best,
> Roland Steiner
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