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SOME addenda et corrigenda TO THE
'GLOSSARY OF SELECTED WORDS of Ernst LeumANN'S Die Avasyaka-Erzählungen'
THOMAS OBERLIES*
When my 'GLOSSARY OF SELECTED WORDS OF Ernst LEUMANN'S Die Avaśyaka-Erzählungen’– a kind of appendix to Nalini Balbir's ground-breaking Avaśyaka-Studien (Stuttgart 1993)- was published in 1993, Professor Harivallabh Bhayani was kind enough to send me some notes of his supplying additional information on word meanings and etymologies. When in spring of 1999 I paid him a visit, he informed me that these notes were at my full disposal. I think this volume commemorating Professor Harivallabh Bhayani is the right venue for their publication - as a token of my gratitude and affection towards this incomparable scholar.
Thus, in the following entries, the meanings are those of my glossary and the reference are to Leumann's (= Balbir's) edition. In the next lines (which are indented) Professor Bhayani's remarks are cited without any additions of mine.
ala - 'false promise', Av 30.10 (aho mae ālo abhuvagao)
Cf. alo dinno 'accused falsely', Kathākośaprakaraṇa 31,4, and modern Guj. āļ devũ 'to accuse falsely'. üsentiya 'disdained', Av 38.3 (amhe useṇṭitānim ti paribhūyaim)
üsențitāṇim (read useṇṭiyāim ?) is equated with paribhuyāim 'insulted, disdained'. This meaning seems to have been originally a secondary one. Deśīnāmamālā 8,29 has recorded simdha in the sense of nasika-nāda ‘whistling through the nose, snorting'. In Studies in Deśya Prakrit, Ahmedabad
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