[INDOLOGY] Help with translation

[Harry Spier]

The first translation that came to me for lolajihvānukāriṇi was what
Lubomir Ondracka suggests. "You who resemble a goddess with a rolling
tongue". But that seemed a little strange to me  since nīlasarasvatī is
tārā a goddess with a rolling tongue so why would you say  "she resembles a
goddess with a rolling tongue" when she is a goddess with a rolling tongue..

Is it possible the meaning could be similar to what Roland Steiner suggests
"resembling a rolling tongue" meaning as a fierce form of the goddess
"resembling a rolling tongue lapping up blood" or something similar?

I think the reading lolajihvānukāriṇi is correct because I  found another
manuscript (NGMCP A 1215/58) in addition to the manuscripts in the
Muktabodha digital library that has that reading. But if you search on-line
you can find some versions in blogs or webpages  which in place of
lolajihvānukāriṇi
the reading lolajihvāntakāriṇi but since I didn't find that reading in any
manuscripts I assumed that was probably a modern change to a difficult
reading.

Harry Spier

On Tue, May 21, 2019 at 4:44 AM Lubomír Ondračka <ondracka at ff.cuni.cz>
wrote:

> Lolajihvā is a common appellation of goddesses with a lolling tongue
> (Kālī, Tārā...).
>
> So I would understand this vocative as "[you, who] resemble (anukāriṇi) [a
> goddess] with a lolling tongue (lolajihvā)".
>
> In some texts, Lolajihvā is a name of a yoginī, so other option would be
> "[you, who] look like [a yoginī] Lolajihvā", but I think this is less
> probable.
>
> Best,
> Lubomir
>
> > On Mon, 20 May 2019 at 19:27, Harry Spier via INDOLOGY <
> > indology at list.indology.info> wrote:
> >
> > > Dear list members,
> > >
> > > The Nīlasarasvatīstotram occurs in 4 scriptures in the Muktabodha
> digital
> > > library:  āgamakalpalatā, bṛhannīlatantra, tārārahasyavṛttikā,  and
> agnikāryapaddhati
> > > with this reading for verse 3.
> > >
> > > jaṭājūṭasamāyukte lolajihvānukāriṇi |
> > >
> > > drutabuddhikare devi trāhi māṁ śaraṇāgatam || 3 ||
> > >
> > >
> > > I"m not clear on how to translate: lolajihvānukāriṇi .
> > >
> > > Any help would be appreciated.
> > >
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Harry Spier
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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