Dear Madhav,

As a note rather than an answer to your question: you may already be aware of the most recent work on that phrase (and a discussion of Brough's views), Bryan Levman's article ?Sak?ya niruttiy? Revisited.? Bulletin des Études Indiennes 26-27 (2008-2009): 33-59.

Warm regards,
Christoph

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Quoting Madhav Deshpande <mmdesh@umich.edu>:

Dear Indologists,

    If any one has access to an electronic copy of John Brough's article

on "sak?ya niruttiy?", 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 satk?ta, rather than from sa?sk?ta.  The latter appears in Pali as

sa?khata.  What I found interesting is that satk?t?m v?cam appears as a

variant of sa?sk?t?m v?cam in the manuscripts of R?m?ya?a [Sundarak???a

28.17-18], where Hanuman is wondering that should he speak to S?t? in

sa?sk?t??/satk?t?? v?cam like a Brahmin, she would take him for R?va?a and

would be frightened.  The critical edition of R?m?ya?a selects the reading

sa?sk?t?m, and hence this passage is taken as one of the early reference to

the usage of the word sa?sk?ta in relation to a language.  However, the

reading satk?t?m 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 satk?ta in reference to Sanskrit?

Madhav Deshpande

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Professor of Sanskrit and Linguistics

Department of Asian Languages and Cultures

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The University of Michigan

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