[INDOLOGY] Thakkana again

[Péter-Dániel Szántó]

Apologies, I was still before my first coffee before I posted:

Matthew: Indeed, sgrib par byed pa (still 272 hits).
Roland: I meant to say -ttha- and -ccha-, sorry.

Best,
Peter

On Wed, Oct 16, 2019 at 10:46 AM Roland Steiner via INDOLOGY <
indology at list.indology.info> wrote:

> Dear Peter,
>
> I, too, am not familiar with the manuscript history of this text.
> Since the author originates from Kashmir, the assumption of a Śāradā
> tradition seemed at least natural.
>
> > while ccha and stha are clearly different, they are not _that_ different
>
> But it's about the possible confusion of the ligatures -ttha- (of an
> assumed *śrīmatthakkana-) and -cch- (of śrīmacchakuna), isn't it?
> Would you say that ttha and ccha can also be confused in your 11th c.
> Śāradā ms.?
>
> As fas as the Tibetan variants sgrib byed/med are concerned, I merely
> thought that someone might have considered sgrib byed for a
> "suspicious" name (= possibly corrupted in the course of the Tibetan
> tradition) and corrected it to sgrib med (think of the tendency of
> Sde-dge recension to "revise" readings). But I agree: it could also be
> "nothing more than a psychological slip", which amounts to the same
> result (the original reading would be sgrib byed).
>
> Be that as it may: sgrib byed corresponds to thakkana, whereas sgrib
> med corresponds neither to thakkana nor to śakuna, which suggests that
> the Tibetans originally translated something like thakkana with sgrib
> byed.
>
>
> Best wishes,
> Roland
>
>
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