Re: [INDOLOGY] Paṭhanārtha and vācanārtha

[Dominik Wujastyk]

vācanārtha just means "for the purpose of reading out loud".  In contrast
to paṭhanārtha "for the purpose of reading to one's self".

--
Professor Dominik Wujastyk <http://ualberta.academia.edu/DominikWujastyk>
,

Singhmar Chair in Classical Indian Society and Polity
,

Department of History and Classics <http://historyandclassics.ualberta.ca/>
,
University of Alberta, Canada
.

South Asia at the U of A:

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On Thu, 13 Sep 2018 at 06:37, Jacob Schmidt-Madsen via INDOLOGY <
indology at list.indology.info> wrote:

> Thanks to everybody who responded to my query on and off list. It has
> been most helpful and much appreciated.
>
> For those of you who might be interested, Rolf Heinrich Koch pointed me
> to a footnote by Phyllis Granoff wherein she translates paṭhanārtha as
> "private study" and vācanārtha as "public preaching" in the context of a
> colophon to a Jaina manuscript.
>
> Best,
> Jacob
>
> Madhav Deshpande skrev den 2018-09-11 19:42:
> > I have seen these terms in the colophons of Atharvaveda manuscripts
> > from the region of Gujarat.
> >
> > Madhav M. Deshpande
> > Professor Emeritus
> > Sanskrit and Linguistics
> > University of Michigan
> > [Residence: Campbell, California]
> >
> > On Tue, Sep 11, 2018 at 9:32 AM Tyler Williams via INDOLOGY
> > <indology at list.indology.info> wrote:
> >
> >> Dear Jacob,
> >>
> >> This is a common feature in colophons and is often found with
> >> genitives to indicate for whom the manuscript was copied. Scholars
> >> of Jainism would know better than I any particular connoted
> >> performance contexts, but in general this can mean for both study
> >> and recitation (at least in the case of non-Jain manuscripts).
> >>
> >> Best,
> >> TWW
> >>
> >> Sent from my iPhone
> >>
> >>> On 11-Sep-2018, at 4:51 PM, Jacob Schmidt-Madsen via INDOLOGY
> >> <indology at list.indology.info> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Dear colleagues,
> >>>
> >>> I have recently come across the expressions "paṭhanārtha" and
> >> "vācanārtha" at the end of a few colophons in Jaina manuscripts
> >> and drawings/diagrams. I assume that the expressions indicate that
> >> the text/drawing in question was copied for purposes of study, and
> >> would be interested to know if they are conventionally used in
> >> colophons to indicate as much.
> >>>
> >>> Kind regards,
> >>> Jacob
> >>>
> >>> Jacob Schmidt-Madsen
> >>> PhD Fellow (Indology)
> >>> University of Copenhagen
> >>> Denmark
> >>>
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