Yes, it has a Prakrit origin as Madhev suspects. See
Mayrhofer, A Concise Etymological Sanskrit Dictionary, vol 3,p. 267
"vaikharī f. Name eines best. Lautes / name of a particular sound (Up.,
u.a.): nach Wright, NCSL 24 falsch sanskritisiertes Patronym. von mi.
*vikkhara- < ai. viksarä- m. „Abfluß44 (AV), „Beiname Visnus44 (ep.,u.a.)".
Heiner
Am 24.10.2021 um 02:11 schrieb Jim Ryan via INDOLOGY:
Hi,
I’m curious about the term Vaikharī for articulated speech. In the
/Encyclopedia of Indian Philosophies /volume on the Grammarians,
judging from the index, it seems this term was first used by
Bhartṛhari (at least in a grammatical context.) V. S. Apte cites the
Mallinatha commentary on /Kumārasaṃbhava /for an authoritative
reference of the word, but that is quite late (15th century.) Firstly,
are there instances of this word used with any frequency before
Bhartṛhari? Secondly, the lexicons give no good verbal root or root
word for it. I note that the word /vaikṛtī /as “alteration” has a
similar shape (and wouldn’t fit badly in the “articulated speech”
category of Vāc), but I’m presuming that the word vaikharī is not a
Prakrit-derived form. So… where and how do we get to this important
term in language theory in India, which seems unrelated to any other
common root or word?
Jim Ryan
Asian Philosophies and Cultures (Emeritus)
California Institute of Integral Studies
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