Critical Introduction to Panhavagara

Author(s): Amulyachandra Sen
Publisher: Amulyachandra Sen

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used as an cpithet of maithuna by Buddha also, as in virato methunā gāma-dhammā, Digha 1 4, Angutt 1 211, A titti would be trptıh, but Abh cuidently reads tatti (so in B, F ttattı), for he says taptih gaveşanam pālanam Tā (tatti tatparata adeśaś ca, Dcśin v 20)
Page 31 12-hei should mctric bc hei Asamjae avirae occurs in Süya II iv 63 14 - Abh seems to have before him bahu-viham bhayamkaram and also a pāthân without bahusvibam, of bahu ppagāram he says nothing except explaining it as bahusviham
1 5 – The instrumental in imchi etc is meant for the locative Tasa and thāvara are the two groups into which souls still in bondage are divided acc to one mode of classification, tasa 'mobile' are those souls embodied in fire, air, or in beings possessing two to five senses, thāvara, 'immobile are those embodied in earth, water and plants, see Tat Süt II 12-14, Schubring, Lehred J P 96 16 - padınıyo means here rather 'adverse than 'perverse
I 7 -- pāthīna, zatsy asvisesah, is not found in Pannav, timi and timims gila are mabāsmatsya and mahāsmatsyatama respectively, jhasa is the name of fish in general
18-The mandukkas are not found in Pann, for ad cf tandula = Sk tandula The two kinds of kacchavas are said in Pann to be bonestortoises and Elesbstortoises Nahka is a kind of fish mentioned in Pann along with time and timımgila, and would therefore be Sk nakra The two kinds of magara are sonda and mattha in Pann
18- gāha, jalasjantusvišesa is one of the five classes into which Pann divides aquatic animals and as its subdivisions are named dili, vedhaga, muddhaya, simāgāra and pulaya, manduya is manduya in BF, Abh also reads manduka
I 10 — The tag vibānāshae (once vihānahasko) ya evamsādi appears at the end of all the five lists of animals, Abh explains vibānā as shortened from vidhānaka, kae in the sense of 'etc', see āyār II 1 6 6, and Schubring, Dasav. 5 1 34.
1 11 - huranga and ruru are kinds of deer, sarabha is possibly related to the bovine species like camara and sambara and is not the mythical animal that can take an elephant on its back' as Abh remarks, camara is a wild cow, the yak, well-known for its tail, sambara has many pointed horns, says Abh, it is perhaps the same as sambhār of the Central Pros vinces
Is 11 f - hurabbha = Sk urabhra, but Pann has elaga, pasaya (pasuya in Pann) is biungular, gona (as in BF and Pann) appears as gonasa in A which is a name of a serpent in list in c(1), rohıya is explained by Abh simply as a quadruped and has not been found by him in some Mss, it is also not in Pann, haya is assā, gaya is hatthi, khara is gaddavā in Pann