[INDOLOGY] nāga-stotra

[Asko Parpola]

Dear Dave, here is your lost 2011 message:
Buchta, David, 2011-04-29 on RIASA-list (Jaimini and the fear of lightning):  In one of the songs in Rupa Gosvami's Gitavali, he describes Radha as uttering, "Jaimini, Jaimini," when she is afraid that a group of kokilas have been struck by lightning. I am wondering if anyone is familiar with this practice. In his commentary, Baladeva Vidyabhushana claims that the practice of reciting Jaimini's name to remove fear of lightning is prasiddha, well known. Of course, just not to me. He cites an unattributed passage in support, but it is incomplete in the printed edition of the commentary. What is there is, "muneH kalyANamitrasya jaiminez cApi kIrtanAt. vidyud-agni-bhayaM nAsti ...litena mahodare. ...jaiminiz ca vaizampAyana eva ca. pulastyaH pulahaz caiva paJcaite vajra-vAraNAH." So far, my search has not been fruitful. Monier-williams defines vajra-vAraka as "a title of respect applied to certain sages," with the ever-disappointing "L." for source. If anyone is can shed any light on this tradition, or knows where this citation may come from, I would appreciate any help.
In my Jaimini article I noted: According to A. Weber (1876, 257) the name Jaimini has been formed irregularly from jeman (victorious) - one would have expected Jaimani. Jaimani is attested as a variant reading for Jaimini, and manuscript colophons of various Sāmaveda texts of the Jaiminīya branch have the variant Jaimuni and even Jayamuni. The Brill editors had struck away my suggestion that Jaimini could be a regular derivation of jéman n.’victoriousness’: ‘one possessing victoriousness’. 
Best wishes, Asko



> On 14. Jan 2025, at 7.52, Arlo Griffiths <arlogriffiths at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Dear Dave,
> 
> I have just revised my encoding for that Campā inscription. Try out the same link again (https://dharmalekha.info/texts/INSCIC00175). The URL for the 2012 publication leads to a pdf of the same.
> The Cambodian inscription K. 1216 will also be of interest to you (https://dharmalekha.info/texts/INSCIK01216) as will K. 895 (which we still need to encode).
> I will be very happy to be informed if you learn more about this association between Jaim(a/i)ni and co. and lightning strike. Best wishes, Arlo


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