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: [...]