[INDOLOGY] The Buddhist term sutta

[Artur Karp]

I have long asked myself about the point of doing Indology in its purely
philological guise.

The Angulimala-sutta conveys the images of violence and offers suggestions
for resolving conflicts - irrespective of whether the Pali suffix -sutta is
derived from the OIA -su-ukta or -sutra.

But, perhaps, this differentiation affects our understanding of the text?

Artur

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wt., 11 maj 2021 o 19:12 Artur Karp <karp at uw.edu.pl> napisał(a):

> 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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