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B I B L IO T H E C A O R I E N T A L I S H U N G A R I C A
V O L. X X I X / 1
TIBETAN AND BUDDHIST
STUDIES
COMMEMORATING
THE 200TH ANNIVERSARY
OF THE BIRTH OF
ALEXANDER
CSOMA DE KOROS
Edited by
LOUIS LIGETI
A K A D & M I A I K I A D 6 , B U D A P E S T 1 9 8 4
TIBETAN AND BUDDHIST
STUDIES
CO M M EM O RATING
THE 200TH ANNIVERSARY
OF THE BIRTH OF
ALEXANDER
CSOMA DE K3ROS
Edited by
LOUIS LIGETI
Volume 1
A K A D & M I A I K I A D 6 , B U D A P E S T 1 9 8 4
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TIBETAN LEXICAL NOTES
BY
R . E . E M M E R IC K (Ha mb u rg )
In the Frocee^wgy o/ fAe Cw wa & / sforM Afeworfa / ^wpoJiMM
AeMafAfafra/i
Tfung ar^ -Se^fewAer 7P76, Bud apes t 1978, 101-108 , I wro te
abo ut so
lexica l i t ems f rom the Rgyud-bzi . Some cor rec t ions and
useful addi t ions to
notes were made by J . W. de Jong in /7V, 23.1, 1981, 75-76. The
fol lowing no
concern l exica l i t ems found in another medical t ext ,
Ravigupta ' s -SMtfAajara .
7. faw-Aa/
This word has n ot been found in Tibetan dic t ionar ies under
any of the spel l
l isted below.
I t i s a t t es ted in the Siddhasara as a render ing of Sanskr
i t Aajwiarya in
fol lowing readings :
Si 2.15 faw-Aa/ P] ([-/?a-/a D, ft-pa?N
Si 3.2212 faw-Aa/ DN ] ;am-/?a P
Si 5 .95 A fan-pa/ N]A;a?i -pa- /a DP
Si 5 . 1 02 ; a - ; ? a / N P ] f a - p a - / a D
Si 7.24 faw-jpa P] ;aw-/?a-/a D, faw-Aa/ N
Si 27.13 fa?M-Aa-/a D : fa w- ^a /N : r faw-pa/ P
Si 28.12 faw-pa- /a DN P
As a render ing of Sanskr i t Aawnan i t i s a t t es ted as fol
lows:
S i 2 . 2 5 ; a m - p a 7 P] ; : - A a / D N
Si 5.34 faw-^a / NP] faw-pa- /a D
Si 5.62 faw -pa/ P] faw-pa-Za D, faw-Aa/ N
Si 6.24 ;am-Aa/ P] faw-/?a-/a D, faw -^a / N
Simi lar render ings of Sanskr i t / ca^warya are found in the
Tibetan vers ion
V a g b h a t a ' s A h :
Su. 1.5.11 ;a?i-pa/ D 78a2; P 52 a3
Ut t .34.28 fan-^a/ D 312a5 : fan-Aa/ P 295b2
U t t. 3 6 .6 0 f a n - A a / D 3 1 8 b 3 : f a w - A a / P 30 2
b7
In the Tibetan vers ion of the Am arak osa on the other hand
only etymotogic
render ings are given. AK 2.4.35 gja / -A ye^(4 6bl ) for /
cawiar f and AK 2.4.36 ^n
Man (46bl ) for Aa^warya. gja / -Aar Aye^-pa i s known to render
Sanskr i t ^raAra
(Lokesh Chandra) .
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The variety of spellings points to this word being a loanword
and since Aawwarya
i s genera l ly ident i f ied as Gmel ina arbo rea R oxb. (Ki r
t ik ar and Basu, I I I , 193 2-4;
G. J. Meulenbeld, 77ie Afa^AavantWawa, Leiden 1974, 543) white
teak)), a purely
Indian t ree , an Indian o r igin should be sought . Unless i
tisa complete cor rup t ion of
Sanskr i t gawAAarf , a synonym of Aaywarya, no sui t able Ind
ian source has yet been
f o u n d .
The Khotanese vers ion of the Siddhasara has/cajwfrye at all
three occurrences:
2 . 1 5 , 2 5 3 . 2 2 . 1 2 ( C h i i . 0 0 2 . 1 2 r 4 ,1 4 r l
a n d 1 9 r l ) . I t i s r e m a r k a b l e t h a t th e K h o t
a n e s e
has Aajwirye also to render Sanskrit jri^arwf, said by J: 'Jt
/AaMra-ntgAaw(M 71 to be
synonymous wi th Aa^warf , whereas the Tibetan does not once use
; aw-Aa/ but
a lways a t ranscr ipt ion of . frF-^arw. In the Siddhas ara i r
r -^ arwo ccu rs a t 2 .7 ,24,28
5.35,53. The l as t two places are not extant in Khotan ese
..fri^parwse ldom occurs in
Vagb hata ' s A h. At U t t . 20.12 we f ind a t ranscr ipt ion:
.R- r : / ?arw (D 285a4) , yt '- aW-
par-H (P 264a5).
The use of Aajwi rye in Khotan ese sugges t s tha t Tibetan Aa/
may be intended to
mea n Nepalese) ) but one would expect Aa/ to be the f i r s t e
lement of the com pou nd
rather than the second.
2. cag-cag
cag-cag i s found in the dic t ionar ies of Chos-kyi grags-pa a
nd Su mat i ra tn a , but i t
ishelpful to draw attention to i ts use in bilingual texts.
Itisevident ly a der ivat ive of
gcag-pa to pierce , pr ick) ) recorded by Da s . Ano ther d er
ivat ive isAcagj-Ax,which is
described by Jasc hke as a lan cet for bleeding)), Acagj-Ax
(Acagy N, gcagy D, Acag P)
occurs in Si 26.88 as a render ing of Sanskr i t j a^ra , which
i s used there of an
instrument for piercing pimples in the throat. The Khotanese has
(156v3) /7rr: 'A
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AArt/w-pa Ay^n-Aa (when) heat is present and pimpies have arisen
in the mouth)).
The Khotanese vers ion has in Si 26.85:
CM
//aH& y'ja A:Aayjw:' / ;'raww (/a when
pimples emerge due to heat)) and in
Si 26.86:
cm;' / /aMda Aawe M
