Madhuvidya

Author(s): S D Laddu, T N Dharmadhikari, Madhvi Kolhatkar, Pratibha Pingle
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad

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SOME LEXICOGRAPHICAL NOTES ON THE UPANIŞADS
by
M. A. MEHENDALE
Poona
1. Suși- "Höhlung eines Rohrs" Kāțh. 19.1 (Böhtlingk-Roth, Skt. Wb.) is to be corrected to suşirá- in this passage and in KapKS. 29.8 according to Wackernagel-Debrunner, Altind. Gramm. II/2, Nachträge, p. 939. Böhtlingk (pw.) gives one more reference, the Commentary on ApśS. 7.26.11, but the reference to ChU. 3.13.2–5 should also have been given. On the other hand, devasuşi- ChU. 3.13.1 "eine zu den Göttern führende Öffnung...." (BR), "Götterhöhlung im Herzen)" (Böhtlingk) has already been recorded. Cf. also parisuşiram Sānkh., Ār. 11.1 (v. I. parisuşiram in the Leiden manuscript).
As regards the etymology of this word, Walde-Pokorny I, p. 365 suggest that it is probably to be derived from všvi- "to swell" with s-extension. Wackernagel-Debrunner, Altind. Gramm. II/2, 8230b (p. 363) derive suşila- (Pancar. 3.10.11 cited in Böhtlingk) from sus"to dry”. They also suggest, although with a question mark, to equate suşila- with suşirá-, which latter they explain as suşi-ra-1 (8686b, p. 857). But how they derive suși- itself is not clear.
It may be suggested that suşi. is to be derived from svas-:sus. "to blow, etc.". This derivation would be both formally and semantically better. It has to be noted that the word is also written as suşi-? which, if the etymology suggested here is correct, should be regarded as the primary form. suși- would then be a secondary form arisen due to dissimilation. As for Amg. jhusira- "löchrig, hohl" (Pischel, Gramm. der Prakrit-Sprachen, $ 211), it seems that the initial s. became ch-, which owing to voicing became jh-. Amg. jhusira- is a more likely development from sușira- than from sușira-.
And not as su-sira- (Grassmann, Monier-Williams, Wackernagel, I, $ 83d, p. 94, II/1 § 42b, p. 98). 2 Uhlenbeck, Kurzgef. etym. Wb. der ai. Sprache, regards the form suşi-as perhaps better than suşi-.
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