[INDOLOGY] Question

[Walter Slaje]

It is perhaps worthy of note that Scheftelowitz in his critical Khila
edition of the RV has recorded a number of variant readings:

*śrī*° for *śrīr*

°*varcasyam* for °*varcasvam*

*āvidhāc chobhamānaṃ, āvidhāt pavamānaṃ* and *āyudhāt pavamānaṃ*

for *āvidhāc chubhamānam.*


(Die Apokryphen des Ṛgveda (*Khilāni*). Hrsg. und bearbeitet von J.
Scheftelowitz. [Indische Forschungen. 1]. Breslau 1906, p. 78.)



The variant reading *āyudhāt* is of particular interest here, as *āyudha*
(“weapon, implement”) seems to have been regarded as semantically closely
related to *āvidhāt*, if we derive the meaning of *āvidha* with Indian
grammarians from *ā*-√*vyadh* (cp. Āpte, and Patañjali below). The
emergence of the explanatory variant *āyudha* is most likely to be
explained from this background.

This, then, would rather result in the meaning of “eine Art Bohrer” (pw),
“an awl, a drill“ (MW) for *āvidha*.



*vyadhi* | *āvidhyanti tenāvidham* | *vyadhi *|| *hani *[...] ||
*yudhi* | *āyudhyante
tenāyudham* ||


(Patañjali’s Mbh, ed. Kielhorn, 3rd ed., Vol. II. Poona 1965, p. 150, 22ff)



The idea of extracting shining beauty (*śobha*°/*śubhamāna*) by "drilling"
with an instrument (similar to the well-known “churning”) is perhaps not
too far-fetched in the context of the Śrīsūkta.



Regards,

WS

Am Sa., 10. Aug. 2019 um 05:25 Uhr schrieb Hock, Hans Henrich via INDOLOGY <
indology at list.indology.info>:

> Here’s my take, Madhav; I hope it’s helpful
>
> The crux seems to be *āvidhāt*. While most dictionaries, following Monier
> Williams, give meanings like ‘drill’, the addenda to the Petersburg
> dictionary (at
> http://gretil.sub.uni-goettingen.de/gretil/6_sres/2_dict/schnzsw_u.htm)
> add the meaning *udreka*, i.e. ‘abundance’ etc.
>
> With this meaning the line can be interpreted as *varcasvam āyuṣyam
> ārogyam* (subject), *āvidhāt* (ablative) ‘on account of abundance’,
> *sobhamānam* (quasi-predicate participle) ‘shining, beautiful’, *mahīyate* ‘prospers,
> is exalted'
>
> All the best,
>
> Hans/Hans Henrich
>
> On 9 Aug2019, at 20:34, Madhav Deshpande via INDOLOGY <
> indology at list.indology.info> wrote:
>
> Can someone explain to me the grammar of this line from the Śrīsūkta of
> the R̥gveda Khila?
>
> śrīḥ.varcasvam.āyuṣyam.ārogyam.āvidhāt.śobhamānam.mahīyate./ RvKh_2,6.24b
>
> Madhav M. Deshpande
> Professor Emeritus, Sanskrit and Linguistics
> University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
> Senior Fellow, Oxford Center for Hindu Studies
>
> [Residence: Campbell, California, USA]
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