[INDOLOGY] The Buddhist term sutta

[Artur Karp]

Dear colleagues,
the question of the etymology of the Pali term sutta is interesting in
itself.

But - can its resolution broaden our understanding of the institution of
slavery in ancient India?
Would it help us to better understand the ideological bases of genocidal
practices directed against tribal communities?
The phenomenon of untouchability?

Best,

Artur

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wt., 11 maj 2021 o 18:47 Rupert Gethin via INDOLOGY <
indology at list.indology.info> napisał(a):

> Could someone confirm the wider Prakrit evidence?
>
> Tim commented with reference to the Pali commentarial explanation of
> *sutta* as *suvutta*:
>
> But this is not really much to support *sutta* < *sūkta*, since the
> regular Pāli form parallel to *sūkta* includes the glide -v-, as Skt
> *ukta* ~ Pāli *vutta* and similarly in other MIA languages, which all
> seem to preserve the initial v- of the verbal root **vac*- (Pischel
> §337), despite the vowel change a > u before a labial (§104).
>
>
> But unless I am misreading something here, Pischel (§337) notes that Jaina
> Śaurasenī, Śaurasenī and Māgadhī all have utta < ukta
>
> And Turner’s* A comparative dictionary of the Indo-Aryan languages *
> includes Prakrit *sutta* under *sūkta*:
>
> 13545 *sūktá* ʻ well recited ʼ RV., ʻ eloquent ʼ MatsyaP. [su -- 2, uktá
> -- ]
> Pk. *sutta* -- ʻ handsomely said ʼ; OG. *sūta* ʻ speaking properly ʼ.
>
> https://dsal.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/app/soas_query.py?page=780
>
> Rupert
> --
> *Rupert Gethin*
> Professor of Buddhist Studies
>
> University of Bristol
> Department of Religion and Theology
> 3 Woodland Road
> Bristol BS8 1TB, UK
>
> Email: Rupert.Gethin at bristol.ac.uk <Rupert.Gethin at bristol.ac.uk>
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