Thank you for that suggestion, Hans Henrich. Indeed, the /ca /should be
taken seriously. And as Walter Slaje reminded me privately, /dyumna /is,
of course, a noun (unlike /dyumat/, which I suppose was subconsciously
at the root of my off-the-cuff translation), so something like 'wealth
and fame' would be a better translation.
My gut feeling, as I said, is that /nigadan /is the better reading. It
is also from a MS that, if Bhandarkar is correct, is some 200 years
earlier than the one giving /gadituṃ/. I suspect that what may have
happened is that, in the phrase /śubhāśubhā_ni ni_gadan/, one /ni/ was
accidentally omitted in an earlier witness, leaving the verse one
syllable short and leading a later, semi-literate copyist to emend
/gadan/ to /gadituṃ/. I just wanted to check first if I was missing some
obscure use of the infinitive, but so far it seems not.
Best wishes,
Martin
Den 2024-01-18 kl. 17:20, skrev Hock, Hans Henrich:
Hi, Martin
One possible solution is to take the _ca_ before _āpnuyāt_ seriously
and to construe the verb with two complements, one being _dyumna.m
yaśa.h_, the other _śubhāśubhāni gaditum_. In that case there would be
no problem with the interpretation of the infinitive
Best wishes
Hans Henrich
On Jan 18, 2024, at 06:37, Martin Gansten via INDOLOGY
<[email protected]> wrote:
The Sanskrit infinitive is commonly used in the sense 'for the sake
of', much like the final dative of a noun. Recently, however, I came
across a phrase where, if the reading is correct, it can only be
understood in something like the opposite sense, that is, 'on account
of' (corresponding more to the use of the ablative or instrumental):
/... atra śubhāśubhāni gadituṃ dyumnaṃ yaśaś cāpnuyāt
/
'[The astrologer], _on account of predicting_ good and evil, will
attain bright fame.'
There is a variant reading /nigadan/, which would be entirely
unproblematic and, I suspect, preferable; but I should like to know
if any sort of case can be made for the lectio difficilior. I haven't
come across such a use of the infinitive before. Has anyone else?
Best wishes,
Martin Gansten
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