[INDOLOGY] 'catching the ocean in a cow's hoofprint'

[Lubomír Ondračka]

Victor D'Avella in his PhD thesis (Creating the Perfect Language: Sanskrit Grammarians, Poetry, and the Exegetical Tradition) says (p. 355):

I recall a verse that H. V. Nagaraja Rao once recited to me and which I have since
located in the prefatory verses of Devabodha’s Jñānadīpikā [note 17: Many thanks to Harunaga Isaacson and Whitney Cox, who independently pointed out this reference to me.] and Kṛṣṇa Śeṣa Prakāśa:

yāny ujjahāra māhendrād vyāso vyākaraṇārṇavāt |
tāni kiṃ śabdaratnāni santi pāṇinigoṣpade || (Jñānapradīpikā, p. 2) [note 18: PrKPra vol. III p. 6.14 with the variant maheśād for mahendrād.]

“Are the gems of speech, which Vyāsa has retrieved out of the ocean of grammar
from great Indra, to be found in Pāṇini’s puddle?”

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Jñānadīpikā of Devabodha: Śrīdevabodhakṛtamahābhāratatātpāryaṭīkā jñānadīpikā mahābhārate
ādiparve. Commentary by Devabodha on the Ādipārvan of the Mahābhārata. Ed. R. .N. Dandekar.
Poona: Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, 1941.

PrKPra =
Prakriyākaumudī by Śrīrāmacandrācārya with the Commentary
Prakāśa by Śrīkṛṣṇa. Ed. Muralīdhara Miśra. 3 Vols. Sarasvatībhavana-Granthamālā Vol. 111.
Varanasi: Sampurnanand Sanskrit University, 2000.

LO


On Mon, 23 Dec 2019 19:24:48 +0100
huet via INDOLOGY <indology at list.indology.info> wrote:

> At entry goṣpada <https://sanskrit.inria.fr/DICO/25.html#go.spada> I noted this variant:
> yāny ujjhahāra bhagavān vyāso vyākaraṇāmbudheḥ |  tāni kiṃ padaratnāni bhānti pāṇinigoṣpade 
> which is attributed to Nārāyaṇa Bhaṭṭa by Ian Houben.
> 
> G. Huet
> 
> 
> > Le 23 déc. 2019 à 17:58, Nagaraj Paturi via INDOLOGY <indology at list.indology.info> a écrit :
> > 
> > I came across this paper on a academia:
> > 
> > https://www.academia.edu/39702522/P%C4%81%E1%B9%87ini_Catching_the_Ocean_in_a_Cows_Hoofprint <https://www.academia.edu/39702522/P%C4%81%E1%B9%87ini_Catching_the_Ocean_in_a_Cows_Hoofprint>
> > On Mon, Dec 23, 2019, 9:42 PM Antonia Ruppel via INDOLOGY <indology at list.indology.info <mailto:indology at list.indology.info>> wrote:
> > Dear all,
> > 
> > In the BBC radio series 'Incarnations', the episode on Pāṇini is entitled 'Catching the Ocean in a Cow's Hoofprint', which it says is a description of what Pāṇini's work achieved.
> > 
> > Can anyone tell me what the source of this expression specifically in reference to Pāṇini is? Textual/online searches for goṣpada- have not led me very far - but maybe I've been looking for the wrong word?
> > 
> > (In case anyone doesn't know 'Incarnations' and wants to listen to any of the episodes: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05rptbv/episodes/downloads <https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05rptbv/episodes/downloads>)
> > 
> > Many thanks and all the best,
> >      Antonia
> > 
> > —
> > Dr Antonia Ruppel
> > University of Oxford
> > 
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