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Sanskrit Śauṭīra-

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2011

T. Burrow
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Sanskrit śauṭīra-, given the meaning “haughty, arrogant, proud”, occurs mainly, according to the Petersburg dictionary, in the language of the epic poems. From it is derived a neuter abstract noun śauṭīrya- “manliness, pride” current in the same texts. Beside śauṭīra- there also occurs an alternative form of the word, śauṇḍīra- (whence also śauṇḍīrya- nt.), and the relation between these two forms in the epic poems is that they regularly occur as variant readings in the same passages. Apart from the epic poems, and the Harivaṃśa, which counts as a supplement to the Mahābhārata, the dictionary only cites śauṇḍīrya- (in this form) once from the Bhāgavata Purāṇa, and three times from the drama Mṛcchakaṭika. In the latter text the form śauṇḍīrya-, as opposed to śauṭīrya-, seems well established, since in only one passage (Ed. Stenzler, 120, 21) is śauṭīrya- quoted as a variant reading.

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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society , Volume 102 , Issue 1 , January 1970 , pp. 15 - 19
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Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 1970

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1 To this material Schmidt's, R.Nachträge adds sauḍīra- “valiant”, Yaśastilaka, II, 409, 14Google Scholar. This is closer to Prakrit soḍīra- than the usual Skt. form.

2 The critical edition reads śauṇḍīryamāninaḥ.

3 The text should probably be emended to akṛpaṇaśauṇḍīram.

4 Materials for a dictionary of the Prajñāpāramitā literature, Tokyo, 1967.Google Scholar