A Final (?) Note on kuśaṇa-mūla in the Nasik Inscription of Uṣavadāta
The term kuśaṇa-mūla, occurring twice in Nasik inscription 12, has been the subject of a long controversy. In 1978 V.V. Mirashi first correctly proposed a connection with the familiar Buddhist term kuśala-mūla ('root of merit'), but he thought that the form kuśaṇa- was a 'mistake'...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Peeters Publishers
2020
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Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies
Year: 2020, Volume: 43, Pages: 167-179 |
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Summary: | The term kuśaṇa-mūla, occurring twice in Nasik inscription 12, has been the subject of a long controversy. In 1978 V.V. Mirashi first correctly proposed a connection with the familiar Buddhist term kuśala-mūla ('root of merit'), but he thought that the form kuśaṇa- was a 'mistake' for kuśala-. Here it is argued that the variant form is not a mistake, but rather a dialectal variant reflecting the alternation between n/ṇ and l that is widely attested in Indo-Aryan languages, especially in cases of dissimilation of proximate syllables with l. |
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ISSN: | 2507-0347 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: International Association of Buddhist Studies, Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2143/JIABS.43.0.3289055 |