Dear Indologists,

     If any one has access to an electronic copy of John Brough's article on "sakāya niruttiyā", please send it to me as an attachment.  I am interested in the discussion of the Pali word sakkata used by Buddhaghosa and others to refer to Sanskrit.  Looks like this word would come from Sanskrit satkṛta, rather than from saṃskṛta.  The latter appears in Pali as saṅkhata.  What I found interesting is that satkṛtām vācam appears as a variant of saṃskṛtām vācam in the manuscripts of Rāmāyaṇa [Sundarakāṇḍa 28.17-18], where Hanuman is wondering that should he speak to Sītā in saṃskṛtāṃ/satkṛtāṃ vācam like a Brahmin, she would take him for Rāvaṇa and would be frightened.  The critical edition of Rāmāyaṇa selects the reading saṃskṛtām, and hence this passage is taken as one of the early reference to the usage of the word saṃskṛta in relation to a language.  However, the reading satkṛtām is there in several manuscripts, and would seem to match the Pali/Prakrit usage of sakkata/sakkaya to refer to Sanskrit.  K. R. Norman refers to Brough's article, but I have not had access to it.  Any other occurrences of satkṛta in reference to Sanskrit?

Madhav Deshpande

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Madhav M. Deshpande
Professor of Sanskrit and Linguistics
Department of Asian Languages and Cultures
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