[INDOLOGY] Renou's study on purISa

[Jan E.M. Houben]

N.B.
The 2014 RV translation where several of the translations of púrīṣa etc.
need to be reconsidered is, of course, the translation by Jamison and
Brereton :)

On Fri, 18 Mar 2022 at 15:36, Jan E.M. Houben <jemhouben at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear François,
> Mayrhofer (1926-2011), on p. 310-311 of his KEWA vol. II (1963), refers to
> two places where Louis Renou (1896-1966) discussed púrīṣa:
> Journal Asiatique 1939 p. 387ff and Etudes Védiques et Paninéennes 4
> (1958) 81f.
> On p. 148 of his EWAIA vol. II (1996), Mayrhofer again refers to a later
> publication of Renou that appeared posthumously:  EVP XVI (1967) p. 87,
> 108.
> At both these places, Renou refers back to his own article entitled púrīṣa
> -- I think this is finally the study you had in mind -- in IIJ 4 (1960) p.
> 104-110.
> It is no doubt surprising that under the lemma púrīṣa Mayrhofer did not
> refer to this 1960 detailed study by Renou directly, but only to the two
> very brief 1967 references to it.
> In any case we may infer from these later references that the conclusion
> of this article remained Renou's final view:
> "Avant donc d'imaginer une acception toute nouvelle pour les emplois
> rgvédiques, il nous semble plus raisonnable d'y reconnaître une utilisation
> poétique, une transposition des valeurs telles que nous les constations
> dans la littérature rituelle.
> ("Before imagining an entirely new meaning for the Rgvedic uses [of
> púrīṣa], it seems to us more reasonable to recognize in them a poetic use,
> a transposition of values such as we have observed in the ritual literature
> [Brāhmaṇas, Śrautasūtras etc. discussed in the article].")
> On the basis of Renou's 1960 study several of the translations of púrīṣa,
> purīṣín, and, once, purīṣyà, in the RV translation by Jamison-Renou 2014
> need to be reconsidered.
> All best,
>
> On Mon, 14 Mar 2022 at 18:12, François Voegeli via INDOLOGY <
> indology at list.indology.info> wrote:
>
>> Dear All,
>>
>> Renou wrote a study on purISa but I don't remember where and when.
>> Does anyone has the references of this study? A pdf welcomed.
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>> François Voegeli
>>
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