Dear Adriano,

I am by no means an expert, but I would agree with Dr. Hock about "invariable yat" (discussed by Gonda in Lingua 4:1ff.) for the following reasons:

• I take "ha" to be a causal particle (= yasmāt, hence yat != yasmāt);
  
• I take "vai" to mark the topic of the sentence (usually equivalent to the subject: in most nominal sentences, the subject comes AFTER the predicate, i.e., X Y should be translated as "Y is X," but X-vai Y should usually be translated as "X is Y");
• hence "for this mleccha (viz., 'mleccha' in the prohibition "na mlecchitavai") in fact means (yat) 'a bad word'"

Andrew

On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 2:34 PM, Adriano Aprigliano <aprigliano@usp.br> wrote:

Dear colleague,

Still on the order matter, in the commentary you quote, the commentator understands eṣaḥ as bound to apaśabdaḥ, forming the subject part of the sentence (eṣo'paśabdaḥ), and mlecchaḥ as the predicate —if I understood it right– ("this deviant word is [indeed] barbaric, known as barbaric"). But if that is so, how to account, syntactically, for yad being in between eṣaḥ and apaśabdaḥ in the original text? Would it be possible with eṣaḥ as an adjective pronoun? 

Best wishes

Prof. Dr. Adriano Aprigliano

Área de Língua e Literatura Latina

 

Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas

Universidade de São Paulo

São Paulo, Brasil

Em 30/10/2013, às 13:00, George Cardona escreveu:

Dear colleague, If I understand you properly, you consider that the expected form should be yaḥ, construed with apaśabdaḥ, hence the syntactic problem.  On the other hand, yad can be adverbial, equivalent to yasmāt.  This is the syntax given in the Sūktiratnākara (ed. Vaman Shastri Bhagavat, p. 44.5-6): हवैशब्दौ प्रसिद्धिवाचकौ । यद् यस्मादेषोऽपशब्दो म्लेच्छो म्लेच्छतयातिप्रसिद्ध इत्यर्थः।

On Oct 30, 2013, at 8:38 AM, Adriano Aprigliano wrote:

Dear colleagues,

I have been having doubts on how to translate this MBhāṣ sentence (Kielhorn, p.2, line 8):

te'surāḥ. te surā helayo helaya iti kurvantaḥ parābabhūvuḥ. tasmād brāhmaṇena na mlecchitavai nāpabhāṣitavai. mleccho ha vā eṣa yad apaśabdaḥ.

The problem is on the last sentence, what to make of that yad apaśabdaḥ. I start with ' for this one/he is indeed a mleccha...". 

Any suggestions?

best wishes

Prof. Dr. Adriano Aprigliano

Área de Língua e Literatura Latina

 

Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas

Universidade de São Paulo

São Paulo, Brasil

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