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DEŚYA WORDS FROM THE MAHĀPURĀŅA
sūrya-. The relevant passage here is - "dhariu kumāte sthauresaru ņāi vidappe khayadiņa-nesaru”. "The king of Simbapura was caught or captured by Kumāra as though the sun of the day of deluge by Rāhu'. Tagare also connects ņesara- with (di-) nešvara. (vide Historical Grammar of Ap., Index Verborum). The word is a Dravidian loan;
cf. Kan, nēsar= 'the sun', Ta. hayir= 'the sun, the day-light'. 762. Taṇhāya- 54 14 11 'wet, moist'.
[The relevant passage is - "ari-ruhira-toya-tanhāya-tanu"- 'one whose body was wet with the enemy's blood'; cf. tannaya-särdra-= 'wet' (D. 5 2; Pāi 531; Tr. 2 1 77); cf. tannaya- v.1. tanhaya-- ardra (Lilāvar) & taạnāa-= ärdra (GS.); the word seems to be of Dravidian origin;
cf. Ta, tanni= 'water', Kan. tanna-s 'cold'. 763. Tamdaa - 16 22 8 'a group, a party, an assemblage'.
[=samüha- (gl.); the relevant expression is - "munitardau'- 'a group or party of sages'; this word is not recorded in PSM.; cf. tamdava(D)= samüha- (Bh. 9 12 1); cf. M. tārdā= 'a troop, a party'; the word appears to be of Dravidian origin; cf. Kan. tarda-= 'a multitude, a crowd, a troop, a group, a party'.) Talavara- 30 17 10, 30 18 10, 31 3 2, 31 11 1, 31 13 3, 69 6 4, 72 10 4, 82 10 2, 98 16 2, 98 18 11 'a town watchman, city guard'. [Alsdorf notes kottapala- as the gloss on the word talavara- at 82 10 2; cf. PSM, talavara-= nagara-rakşaka-, kotavāla-; cf. talara-- nagararakşaka-, 'the city gurd' (D. 5 3); Trivikrama gives talāra= pūrādhyaksa(Tr. 1 3 76); cf. talavara- occurring in this very sense in JC. (1 11 6 & 2 29 1), PC.I & III, talara- in PC.II, talera, in Bh. & talavarga-, talara, and talaraka in Bỉ. K.; cf. talara-, talaraka- & talarakşa_- 'a police officer' (Supplement to J. O, I., Baroda, vol. no. 4, p. 149); talärakşa- is a Sanskratisation of Pk. talara-; MW. records talarakşain the sense of 'a body-guard'; cf. G. talați= 'a village officer'. The word appears to be of Dravidian origin; cf. Kap. taļavāra-, talāra, taļāri, Ta. taleyāri, Te. talāri= 'a watchman, a beadle'. See talara
below.]. 765. Talāra - 31 6 5 'police superintendent of a town, a city guard'.
[Compare talāra, in JC. at 3 15 4 & 3 17 3. See note on talara- by A. K. Majumdar in Bharatiya Vidyā volume XVII- nos. 3 & 4 pp.
127- 129: See talavara- above.] 766. Thatta- 77 3 6 'a multitude, a throng, a troop'.
(The relevant passage is - "daramalai thotfadugghotta-thatta"- 'destroys the troop of strong elephants'; cf. PSM, thatta-= samūha, yūtha- quoted
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