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The Old Khotanese fragment H 147 NS 115 and remarks on Old Khotanese haṃdärväto, patīśu, vya and ya.1

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The Old Khotanese fragment H 147 NS 115 in the collection of the India Office Library, London, was first published in transcription by Bailey in KT, v, 56. This paper contains a re-edition of the fragment, now with a translation and a commentary, and a discussion of two of the words occurring in the fragment: ha[ṃ]där-väto ‘*in the interior’ and patīśu ‘in autumn’, also including an excursus on OKh. vya and ya, 3S optative of ‘to be’.

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies , Volume 44 , Issue 3 , October 1981 , pp. 453 - 467
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Copyright © School of Oriental and African Studies 1981

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2 The reading of the Skt. MSS ABCDEF; MS G has prasasyate; Nobel prapadyate, see the commentary below.

3 The reading of the Skt. MS G; Nobel reads ˚pātikanṃ.

1 Nobel, , Berichtigungen (1944, 182).Google Scholar

5 SOL: ‘A year is said to have twelve months.’

6 SOL: ‘The monthly period is to be viewed in threes or in twos.’

7 Leumann: ‘thus food is digested’.

8 See SGL, p. 73, n. 83.

9 SGL: ‘In that case, the doctor must have skill concerning the fourfold division into three months, the six periods in the (bimonthly) division and the six elements. Food, drink, and medicine are according to this sequence.’

10 SOL: ‘In the rainy season, the (appropriate) tastes (are) fatty, warm, salty, and sour.’

11 The Tib. text is found in the Ganjur, Rgyud 13,419b4 (Narthang), Rgyud Ba 80a4 (Peking): de-nas bcom-ldan-hdas-kyis byam-chub sems-dpah sems-dpah chen-po Lag-na-rdo-rje-la legs-so źes bya-ba byin-te / Lag-na-rdo-rje sems-can thams-cad-kyi don-gyi phyir / dṅos-grub dam-pahi gzuṅssṅags gźi-rname smras-pa legs-so legs-so // byaṅ-chvb sems-dpah Lag-na-rdo-rjes gsol-ba / bcomldan-hdas gaṅ sGo-bzaṅ-po źes bgyi-bahi chos-kyi rnam-graṅs ćhe skyoṅ-bahi rig-sṅags hdi hjin-cin / naṅ-par laṅs-nas klog-pa dehi spuhi khuṅ-bu-rnams-su mdaṅs hams-cad brćal-bar (Peking: sćal-bar) bgyi-ba (P.-bar) bśad-par bgyiho // tad yathā, etc. The Tib. omits the mention of Brahma, but the Chin, versions correspond closely to the Kh. one. The Chin, is found in Taishō Issaikyō, vol. 20, nos. 1137–40. The passage corresponding to Sum 941, etc., is found there in no. 1137, 581A21; no. 1138, 582B27; no. 1139, 585C12.

Takubo (loc. cit.) gives tasyām velāyām as the Skt. equivalent of Tib. de-nas, etc., but that is only a reconstruction. In a letter to Emmerick (21.7.1980), Bongard-Levin states that, ‘un-fortunately the Sanskrit text does not give any correspondence to these words’.

12 The form vyata quoted by Bailey is misread for gyas[ta]. The fragment Kha. ix 13al belongs to the Suv. and corresponds to the Skt. text in Nobel, 1937, 4.11–16.

14 Emmerick thinks, probably correctly, that the Kh. form is directly comparable to Avestan buiiāt. The forms vāya (<*vuya) and vya represent the regular alternative phonetic developments according to Sievers-Edgerton's Law.

14 The Kh. appears to have mixed two constructions: the regular Kh. active perfect (nominative + accusative + active verb) and the Skt. passive construction (instrumental + nominative 4- past participle), but the Kh. perfect optative is clearly a rendering of the Skt. conditional, abhaviṣyat.

15 The subscript hook below ṣ and ṣ in LKh. indicates voiced pronunciation [ź, ź]. In OKh. no hook was written in this case, but the voiced pronunciation was indicated by never writing such an ṣ or ṣ double. The unvoiced [ṣ] and [ṣ] were indicated in OKh. by writing single or double ṣ/ṣṣ and ṣ/ṣṣ, and in LKh. by not writing the subscript hook. See also Emmerick, 1979, 9 (Guide).

18 Emmerick's new numbering of the Si., see Emmeriek, 1980, 28.