A Central Asian Buddhist Term: Remarks on Khotanese saña- and Tocharian B sāñ, A ṣāñ

Abstract The Khotanese masculine substantive saña- ‘artifice, expedient, means, method’ cannot be a loanword from the Gāndhārī feminine saṃña ‘perception, idea’ (< Sanskrit saṃjñā-), as has been recently suggested. Bilingual evidence for its meaning, its metrical use, and the contexts where it oc...

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Authors: Tomba, Alessandro Del (Author) ; Maggi, Mauro (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2021
In: Indo-Iranian journal
Year: 2021, Volume: 64, Issue: 3, Pages: 199-240
Further subjects:B Tocharian
B saṃjñā
B Gandhari Prakrit
B language contact
B Upaya
B Khotanese
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