Re: [INDOLOGY] Paṭhanārtha and vācanārtha

[jacob at fabularasa.dk]

Dear Dominik,

I agree with your translations, of course, but wonder how "vācanārtha" 
might be understood in the context of a gyān bāzī game chart which can 
hardly be read out meaningfully. Perhaps the implied meaning is that it 
was to be used for playing/instruction.

Best,
Jacob

Dominik Wujastyk skrev den 2018-09-15 06:41:
> vācanārtha just means "for the purpose of reading out loud".  In
> contrast to paṭhanārtha "for the purpose of reading to one's self".
> 
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> 
> Professor Dominik Wujastyk [1]
> ,
> Singhmar Chair in Classical Indian Society and Polity
> ,
> Department of History and Classics [2]
> ,University of Alberta, Canada
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> 
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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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