Thank you, Nityanand, for this confirmation of the meaning of
buḍ/būḍ. Many thanks also to Roland Steiner, who, off-list, supplied
me with a number of textual references to the use of pānīya in the
generalized sense of water (unrelated to drinking).
Martin G.
Den 2016-09-05 kl. 02:43, skrev
Nityanand Misra:
In Awadhi, the word बूड़ with the
retroflex flap also means to drown. It is commonly used in
the Ramacharitamanasa (composed c. 1574-76) and the
following instances are some examples from the epic: [...]