[INDOLOGY] Short and sweet?

[Elliot Stern]

Does it help to read sūkṣmaḥ svāduśca?

> On Feb 12, 2022, at 11:10 AM, Martin Gansten via INDOLOGY <indology at list.indology.info> wrote:
> 
> In a Sanskrit text probably originating in 13th-century Gujarat, I just came across this line:
> 
> yas tājikabhāṣāyāṃ sūkṣmasvāduś ca sahamasāda iti |
> 
> This is a reference to the Arabic term sahm as-saʿāda (the Lot of Fortune, an astrological concept). But I am puzzled by the designation sūkṣmasvādu, which I have never seen before that I can recall, and certainly not applied to an abstract concept. Does it ring a bell with anyone? Is it an idiomatic expression that I have failed to pick up?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Martin Gansten
> 
> 
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