[INDOLOGY] Vocatives of goddesses names in tantric texts (was NGMCP descriptive catalogue)

Jason Birch jb92 at soas.ac.uk
Mon May 27 10:16:06 UTC 2019


Dear Harry,

These forms could just be scribal mistakes or, at best, irregular spellings. I often encounter vocatives for the goddess ending in long ī (e.g., devī) in manuscripts of yoga texts that were not composed in aiśa. I can send further references if you need examples.

Best wishes,

Jason

> On 27 May 2019, at 01:44, Harry Spier via INDOLOGY <indology at list.indology.info> wrote:
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> On Sat, May 25, 2019 at 4:47 PM Elliot Stern <emstern1948 at gmail.com <mailto:emstern1948 at gmail.com>> wrote:
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> 1. (!) seems to mean [sic], that is, it marks an incorrect form.
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> Some of those irregular forms are  vocatives of names of the goddess with long i on the end where it should have been short i.
> ghorarūpe mahārāve sarvvasatrukṣayaṃkari
> bhaktebhyo varade devī(!) trāhi māṃ saranāgataṃ 1
> jaṭājūṭasamāyukte lolajihvānukāriṇī(!)
> drutabuddhikare devī(!) trāhi māṃ saranāgataṃ 2 
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> I.e. devī and  lolajihvānukāriṇī but these are mixed with a correct form vocative sarvvasatrukṣayaṃkari . 
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> In other texts I've seen the vocative for  the goddess mahāśakti  written as mahāśakti not as  mahāśakte. also mixed in with correct forms of vocatives. 
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> Does this mean that in the tantric literature, non-standard vocatives are common for goddesses whose names end in long or short i ?
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> Are these irregularities what are known as the irregularities of  aiśa sanskrit or is that term only for irregularities of the earliest tantras?
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> Thanks,
> Harry Spier
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>> On May 25, 2019, at 4:29 PM, Harry Spier via INDOLOGY <indology at list.indology.info <mailto:indology at list.indology.info>> wrote:
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>> Dear list members,
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>> 1. What does (!) mean  in a NGMCP descriptive catalogue record  See for example this catalogue record 
>> http://catalogue-old.ngmcp.uni-hamburg.de/mediawiki/index.php/A_1215-58(1)_Lamb%C4%81stutistotra <http://catalogue-old.ngmcp.uni-hamburg.de/mediawiki/index.php/A_1215-58(1)_Lamb%C4%81stutistotra>
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>> 2. What is the status of the descriptive catalogue.  I.e. how much is completed?  Is the project still on-going?
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>> Thanks,
>> Harry Spier
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