Just as an aside, terms like mudrā/mudraṇa in the sense of printing became common and entered Sanskrit usage from their vernacular usage.  In Marathi, typographic errors resulting in some comic meaning were often referred to as the joke of a Mudrārākṣasa (मुद्राराक्षसाचा विनोद), where the word Mudrārākṣasa is used in an entirely new meaning.  Most of the terms listed by Dominic are part of Marathi usage.  It would be worth investigating the earliest occurrences of these neologisms.

Madhav Deshpande


On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 9:09 AM, Camillo Formigatti via INDOLOGY <indology@list.indology.info> wrote:
Dear Dominik,

Many thanks for this list, it is very helpful!

I would add the following two terms:

yantra, printing press

aá¹…kita, printed (or typeset?)

I'm not sure about the last one, actually printed should be mudrita, but since the term aṅkita occurs both in the title page of the 1814 Calcutta (Khidirapura) edition of Bhāravi’s Kirātārjunīya with Mallinātha’s commentary printed with movable types, as well as in the colophon of an 1861 lithography of the Śūdrakamalākara, I believe it ought to mean printed.

I briefly discuss the term in my 2016 article on Sanskrit print, but leaving a question mark about the meaning. I would be grateful if any of you has a suggestion as to the meaning of this term.

Best wishes,

Camillo


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From: Dominik Wujastyk [wujastyk@gmail.com]
Sent: Saturday, January 28, 2017 8:52 PM
To: Indology
Subject: [INDOLOGY] Skt vocabulary from the title pages and prefaces of Sanskrit editions

I did this little list of vocab list for my students:

  • granthamālā series
  • viracitam composed, written (suffixed to author's name)
  • vyākhyā commentary (Y-viracitayā X-vyākhyayā "with the commentary called X composed by Y")
  • ākhyā called (X-ākhyavyākhyayā "with the commentary called X")
  • upāhvaḥ called (signalling a surname)
  • saṃśodhitam edited
  • vidyālayaḥ university, college
  • prakāśakaḥ publisher
  • saṃskaraṇa edition 
  • mÅ«lyam price
  • mudrakaḥ printer
  • mudraṇālayaḥ printing office
  • upodghātaḥ preface, introduction
  • hastalikhitam manuscript
  • pustakam book 
  • ādarÅ›apustakam manuscript used for comparison or as a witness to the text, exemplar
  • sÅ«cÄ« index
  • sÅ«cÄ«patram index, contents page
  • -mahodaya respected, professor
  • prācÄ«na old
  • tāḍapatram palm leaf
  • pustakālayaḥ library
  • granthasaá¹…grahaḥ library, book collection
  • preá¹£ita sent, posted
  • sakāśāt samupalabdham received from him in person
  • prāpta got, received 
  • saṃpādita completed
  • kroḍapatram fragment, note
  • á¹­ippaṇī note
  • vivaraṇam commentary
  • khaṇditapatram broken leaf
  • pāṭhaḥ reading (as in, manuscript variant)
  • pāṭhāntaram (variant reading)

Additions?  Corrections?

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