Madhuvidya

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

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three etimologies are mentioned in the Nirukta 6.13. One of these, and perhaps the one preferred by Váska, says that niisatyà are so-called as they were born of the pose (nisikuprubhavur babhavatuh). The author notes that according to Wüst the word is to be derived from vnas to associate, Indo-Eur. nes to return, Gr. néomai
I return home. But . LOMMEL has recently shown in an article contributed to Schubring Comniemoration Volumel (pp. 29-31) that the etymology referring to the birth from nose is based on a myth given in the Brhaddevată and the later Purānas, and that the use of the suffix -tyo is attested since Indo-European times for the formation of words which show origin or descent. In chapter IV, section . are collected together words not analysed by the Padapāțha. We may as well noto that dámūnas has not been analysed by the Padapāțha, as it also leaves without analysis vispátni (like vispiti which is recorded on p. 172).
M. A. MEHENDALE
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