[INDOLOGY] Claude

[Matthew Kapstein]

Overall, I am not sure. In an article that I will share with the list when it’s done, I think I demonstrate quite conclusively a west Semitic, probably Arabic, input in a 10th c Sanskrit text from Kashmir, with which there was some intertextuality with the KCT. But of course I do not ask that you accept my arguments until you have seen them.

best,
Matthew

On Fri, Aug 8, 2025 at 17:44, Hock, Hans Henrich via INDOLOGY <[indology at list.indology.info](mailto:On Fri, Aug 8, 2025 at 17:44, Hock, Hans Henrich via INDOLOGY <<a href=)> wrote:

> Overall, I think Madhav’s suggestion that jagri is a vernacularized form of yak.rt, (re)borrowed into Sanskrit, makes the best sense. Hindi-Urdu jigar, by contrast, is most likely one of the many Persian words that came into the language during the extended period of Persianate Muslim rule
>
> Best wishes
>
> Hans Henrich
>
>> On Aug 8, 2025, at 10:15, Madhav Deshpande <mmdesh at umich.edu> wrote:
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>> 
>> It is indeed!
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>> On Fri, Aug 8, 2025 at 8:13 AM Hock, Hans Henrich < hhhock at illinois.edu> wrote:
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>>> Shouldn’t that be yak.rt?
>>>
>>>> On Aug 8, 2025, at 09:59, Madhav Deshpande via INDOLOGY < indology at list.indology.info> wrote:
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>>>> 
>>>> [https://claude.ai/share/2fe502db-185f-447d-b742-88e87ff1c17c](https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://claude.ai/share/2fe502db-185f-447d-b742-88e87ff1c17c__;!!DZ3fjg!_WKarraAktCE2BosanC9Ju9VfbwFiIzLmd1OK4_ZcSR4merfVrsNbd2ofD1GOkmBQaMN1ZxVE5C40zKvmwL_gcXzDILU$)
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>>>> Some interesting connections of the Persian word jigar to Sanskrit word taker for liver.
>>>>
>>>> Madhav Deshpande
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