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Khotanese bihīya again

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 December 2009

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In JRAS, 1967, 22–5, I was able to prove that Khotanese bihīysde means ‘it increases’ and not ‘it decreases’ as had been thought earlier. In BSOAS, XXIX, 3, 1966, 616–17, I showed how bihīysde could be connected with bihīyu ‘very’ and bihīta- ‘intense’. The forms discussed there were analysed under the lemmata *bihis-, bihījs-, *bihīys-, and bihīs- in SGS 100.

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Copyright © School of Oriental and African Studies 1981

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References

1 The reference to this passage is missing in Dresden's glossary s.v. pve'ha-.

2 Bailey's rendering (Dict. s.v. uskhajs-) ‘so like that, it must be prepared’ has little to do with ‘rise’ and disregards uskyāṣṭḁ ‘upwards’. Moreover, it is at variance with the closely corresponding Tibetan.

3 byaṅ-chub-sems-dpah gaṅ-dag las daṅ-po-pa (ed. Ōshika, , p. 188, 1. 29)Google Scholar.

4 ed. Ōshika, p. 188, 11. 29–30.