[INDOLOGY] In search of an emendation

[Madhav Deshpande]

Hi Jonas,

Assuming that the reading is *utkṣāmabhiḥ* [not *ukṣāmabhiḥ* or *akṣāmabhiḥ*],
it could be a compound of *ud+kṣāman* meaningesg "lifting up from the
ground", or getting up, as an adjective of *aṅgaiḥ* [or of implied "eyes"
connecting with *tam ālokya*. Just suggesting a possibility. Best,

Madhav

Madhav M. Deshpande
Professor Emeritus, Sanskrit and Linguistics
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Senior Fellow, Oxford Center for Hindu Studies
Adjunct Professor, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore, India

[Residence: Campbell, California, USA]


On Tue, Oct 10, 2023 at 7:10 AM Buchholz, Jonas <jonas.buchholz at hadw-bw.de>
wrote:

> Dear colleagues,
>
>
>
> my colleague Aneesh Raghavan and I are working on an unpublished Sanskrit
> māhātmya of Kanchipuram and we have encountered a textual problem that we
> have so far not been able to solve. The passage in question is part of the
> origin story of the Palar river, which is said to have originated from the
> streams of milk that the cow Kāmadhenu emitted after the sage Vasiṣṭha had
> created a calf for her. It reads as follows:
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>
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> prı̄tikaṇṭakitair aṅgaiḥ prasnutastanamaṇḍalā |
> †ukṣāmabhis (v.l.: akṣāmabhis)† tam ālokya mahaughaiḥ pāyasair
> nijaiḥ |
> ullaṅghitobhayataṭām udapādayad āpagām |
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>
>
> (The subject is the cow; “tam” refers to “vatsam”, i.e. the calf.)
>
> Here, the word “ukṣāmabhiḥ” does not seem to make sense, nor does the
> variant reading “akṣāmabhiḥ”. However, we cannot think of a meaningful
> emendation. If any of the members of this list have an idea of how to make
> sense of this passage, or how the problematic reading could be emended, we
> would be most grateful!
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>
>
> Best wishes,
> Jonas Buchholz
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