Dear Jacob,

This is a common feature in colophons and is often found with genitives to indicate for whom the manuscript was copied. Scholars of Jainism would know better than I any particular connoted performance contexts, but in general this can mean for both study and recitation (at least in the case of non-Jain manuscripts).

Best,
TWW


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> On 11-Sep-2018, at 4:51 PM, Jacob Schmidt-Madsen via INDOLOGY <indology@list.indology.info> wrote:
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> Dear colleagues,
>
> I have recently come across the expressions "paṭhanārtha" and "vācanārtha" at the end of a few colophons in Jaina manuscripts and drawings/diagrams. I assume that the expressions indicate that the text/drawing in question was copied for purposes of study, and would be interested to know if they are conventionally used in colophons to indicate as much.
>
> Kind regards,
> Jacob
>
> Jacob Schmidt-Madsen
> PhD Fellow (Indology)
> University of Copenhagen
> Denmark
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