Dear Herman,

> Monier Williams (p. 504c) mentions the expression dvigata, meaning 
> "ambiguous" (with reference to Patañjali, a text I am not familiar 
> with). I would like to know the exact place and how certain the 
> meaning "ambiguous" is in the passage concerned, and furthermore if 
> this is the only instance of this dvigata.

pw [= Otto von Böhtlingk: Sanskrit-Wörterbuch in kürzerer Fassung. St. 
Petersburg 1879–1889] s.v. dvigata: "zweideutig [= "ambiguous"] 
Ind.St. 13,483."

"Ind.St. 13,483" = Indische Studien. Beiträge für die Kunde des 
indischen Altertums. Herausgegeben von Albrecht Weber. Mit 
Unterstützung der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft. 13. Band 
(1873), p. 483.

pp. 293-496 = Albrecht Weber: "Das Mahâbhâshya des Patañjali. Benares 1872."

p. 483: âmrâç ca siktâḥ pitaraç ca prîṇitâḥ [= The 
Vyākaraṇa-Mahābhāṣya of Patañjali. 3rd ed. Kielhorn/Abhyankar 1972. 
Vol. 3, p. 388, l. 9]

p. 483, n. 2: "Als Beispiel für die Angabe: dvigatâ api hetavo 
bhavanti [= Mahābhāṣya. Ed. Kielhorn/Abhyankar, Vol. 3, p. 388, l. 8]; 
in unmittelbarem Anschlusse hieran Folgendes: tathâ vâkyâny api 
dvishṭhâni (so Einl., von Nâgeça p. 79 ed. Ballantyne durch: dvayor 
arthayor tishṭhanti erklärt; dvigatâni in 8) bhavanti: çveto dhâvati 
(oder çvâ ito, Nâgeça), alambusânâm yâtâ oder alam bus. als zwei 
Wörter; alambusâ deçaviçeshâḥ busânâm palâlavarṇânâṃ yâtâ prâptimân 
alam samartha iti câ ’rthaḥ, Nâg."


Best wishes,
Roland

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