I am sure, most of you must be aware of the female name ending bāī /bāyī/ bāy /bā found in many contemporary northern particularly north-western languages.

Pingree's version is possibly bāī >vāī, such a phonetic change b<>v being quite common many Indian languages.

The bhāī version could possibly be a hyperstandardization or scribal error.

On Sun, Apr 23, 2017 at 11:04 AM, Martin Gansten via INDOLOGY <indology@list.indology.info> wrote:

According to David Pingree (CESS A5: 335), the astrological author Yādavasūri (early 17th century, Gujarat?) lived in a place called Vāī. In support, Pingree quotes the author's Tājikayogasudhānidhi (16.27):

śrīvatsasaṃjñād dvijapuṅgavādyaḥ śrīvāīnāmni supure ca sādhvī |
śrīyādavena vyaracīha tena sudhānidhis tājikayogapūrvaḥ ||

This is neither metrically nor syntactically satisfactory. On examining a manuscript of the text, I found that it read:

śrīvatsasaṃjñād dvijapuṅgavād yaṃ śrībhāyināmnī suṣuve ca sādhvī |
śrīyādavena vyaracīha tena sudhānidhis tājikayogapūrvaḥ ||

Yādavasūri thus appears to give his mother's name as śrībhāyi. I have not come across this name before -- can anyone confirm that it exists?

Thanks in advance,
Martin Gansten

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