Dear Herman, The construction looks similar to the Sanskrit type yat kiṁ ca(na)/cid/api ‘whatever', except that the ca (etc.) is missing. Could the construction be read along these lines as ‘however many’?
Best wishes, Hans Henrich On Dec 14, 2023, at 11:31, Tieken, H.J.H. (Herman) via INDOLOGY <[email protected]> wrote: Dear list members, In the Āyāraṃgasutta a phrase is found corresponding to Skt yāvantaḥ kiyantaḥ. MW gives as its meaning "as many as". I am not a native speaker of English, but as far as I know this phrase is specifically used with numbers ("as many as a hundred people ...). In the passage concerned there is no number. It functions as a subject to either a verb meaning "they commit violence" or nouns/adjectives like araṃbhajīvī and pariggahāvaṃtī. MW refers to TBr, without, however, a place or an example. I hope someone on the list can provide me with an (or the) example from the TBr or any other text. With kind regards, Herman Herman Tieken Stationsweg 58 2515 BP Den Haag The Netherlands 00 31 (0)70 2208127 website: hermantieken.com<https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://hermantieken.com/__;!!DZ3fjg!5qGPqKwbmmx85uEVVwZ4g_u2O6I78QV5V9F4k4uHdi_K-6oIFzlpckND7G4bjz0H5J4xV1JcVqN0rwDf2vDUMkzPiha_$> The Aśoka Inscriptions: Analysing a corpus, New Delhi: Primus Books, 2023. https://primusbooks.com/ancient/the-asoka-inscriptions-analysing-a-corpus-by-herman-tieken/<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://primusbooks.com/ancient/the-asoka-inscriptions-analysing-a-corpus-by-herman-tieken/__;!!DZ3fjg!5qGPqKwbmmx85uEVVwZ4g_u2O6I78QV5V9F4k4uHdi_K-6oIFzlpckND7G4bjz0H5J4xV1JcVqN0rwDf2vDUMnNsfFzn$> _______________________________________________ INDOLOGY mailing list [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology__;!!DZ3fjg!5qGPqKwbmmx85uEVVwZ4g_u2O6I78QV5V9F4k4uHdi_K-6oIFzlpckND7G4bjz0H5J4xV1JcVqN0rwDf2vDUMsuvlS48$
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