Re: [INDOLOGY] vekurañja, Turner's article

[Roland Steiner]

By chance I came across a further interesting text passage:

taṃ tvām ayaśasā spṛṣṭaṃ na brūyāṃ yadi saṃjaya
kharīvātsalyam āhus tan niḥsāmarthyam ahetukam (5.133.6 Mahābhārata crit. ed.)

The dictionaries give the following meaning of kharīvātsalya with  
reference to exactly this passage:

pw s.v. kharīvātsalya "m. die Mutterliebe einer Mauleselin (die nie  
Junge hat), so v.a. eine übelangebrachte M[utterliebe], eine  
M[utterliebe] für Nichts und wieder Nichts" ["Mauleselin" = female  
hinny"!]

MW s.v. kharī—vātsalya "n. ‘maternal love of a she-mule’, motherliness  
not wanted"

Apte s.v. kharī—vātsalyam: "motherliness not wanted".

Kind regards,
Roland Steiner