Vedic Ghramsa Heat Of Sun Ardhamagadhi Ghimsu Burning Heat Jaina Maharastri Ghim Hot Season

SR No.: 269474
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Author: Collette Caillat
Publisher: Collette Caillat
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Language: English
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ABORI: R. G. Bhandarkar 1both Birth Anniversary Polume
sben to have often overlapped (cf. IAL 4391, 2. “*grişman. (after hémanRşman)". 14 On the other hand the usual pk. word to express" heat, sweat" mppears to have been ghamma ( gharmá, IAL 4445 ), which apparently remained to connected with the exceptional ghimsu. On the contrary, perhaps it was not far-fetched, assuming the metathesis of the aspirate, to relate gimha- and ghimou : the interpretation as a loc. pl. was near at hand, all the more so as the seasons' nashes are naturally often used in the locative, and are more than once in the plural (cf. supra, pa. gimhāna ; moreover PW, s. v. varşá., 2) m. n. a ) Regen, passim; b) n. pl. Regenzeit, AV). Hence the interpretation ghim-su, loc. pl. ir in the hot season, in summer".
It could be easily accepted as it did not involve absurdities or major difficulties.
Nevertheless, there can be no doubt that in the “ seniors.” of the canon, ghimsu had been used in its original form and meaning, which both can be shown to be connected, ultimately, with ghramsás, rare in Vedic, unknown in classical Sanskrit.
ABBREVIATIONS
AIG = Altindische Grammatik von Jackob Wakernagel und Albert Debrunner
(references to pages); amg. = ardhamāgadhi; Charpentier = Utt Ee; CPD - A Critical Pāli Dictionary (including : Epilegomena to Vol. I by
Helmer Smith); E. = European edition (especially of Utt, by Charpentier ); EWA = Manfred Mayrhofer, Kurzgefasstes etymologisches Wörterbuch dos
Altindischen; IAL = R. L. Turner, A comparaitive dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages
(reference to entries ); Ij = Indo-Iranian Journal (especially 2. 4, 1958, 249-270, "Itthīparingā. A
chapter of Jain monastic poetry, edited as a contribution to Indian prosody" by L. Alsdorf (= L. Alsdorf, Kleine Schriften, 1974, 193-214 );
14. Compare hima- m. Kälte, Frost, himā. f. Winter, EWA 3. 697; IAL 14098.