please take a view at PrakritProperNames: "prādhunika is due to lipidoṣa"
Best
Heiner
Am 20.05.2022 um 13:20 schrieb Martin Gansten via INDOLOGY:
I'm sorry to harp on about this, but perhaps I was too hasty when I wrote:
It is, of course, entirely possible that someone at some point
misread prāghuṇika as prādyuṇika (though it would have to have been
someone ignorant of the former word, like myself) and that the
mistake was then copied [...] it is possible that the mystery word
should not mean 'frequent' after all, but rather the next thing
discussed, _which would be someone dear or connected to the querent.
But I can't see prāghuṇika fitting that sense either, at least not
from its etymology_.
I see now that Turner actually suggests prāhuṇa to be the more
correct/original form, related to the idea of hospitality, with the
-gh- being a result of influence from a different root. That does seem
to increase the probability of prāghuṇaka/-ika being the original word
after all, used in the sense of 'someone welcome' rather than just
'wanderer' or (as MW suggests) 'one who goes forth deviously' (!). If
so, the word must then have been misread as prādyuṇika and eventually
deteriorated into prāyaṇika, etc.
This solution seems attractive, but it does presuppose that Turner is
right about the word having connotations of welcome, hospitality and
even kinship (vernacular meanings include 'bridegroom' and 'daughter's
husband'). Romain Garnier, in a paper published in JAOS 133.1, seems
to think so: '[...] /prāhuṇa- /et /prāhuṇaka-/. Ces deux dernières
formes sont assurément les meilleures [...]'. The solution also seems
to suggest that the word was unusual enough not to be understood by
the copyists, at least in some regions.
Best wishes,
Martin
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