Iti als Adverbialbilder

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This article by Michael Hahn (Bonn) uses a textual crux in BCA X.12 as a springboard for a broader philological study of Sanskrit onomatopoetic adverbs. The problematic word chamiti in the verse — which describes a lotus rain extinguishing hellfire — had puzzled editors and translators, generating six competing interpretations. Hahn argues that chamiti is an adverb formed from the onomatopoetic root *cham- plus iti, meaning "with a hissing/sizzling sound," and that the Tibetan translators had understood this correctly all along.

From this starting point, Hahn identifies and analyzes three morphological types of adverbial formations built with iti as a final element, all derived from onomatopoetic roots (e.g., jhaṭiti, jhagiti, taḍiti, dhagiti). He traces these formations across classical Sanskrit literature — in Candragomin's Śiṣyalekha, Hemacandra's Pariśiṣṭaparvan, and Rājaśekhara's Bālarāmāyaṇa — and shows that the formation patterns are already described in Pāṇini's grammar (sūtras 6.1.98–99), though largely neglected in Western scholarship. The article thus contributes both a resolution to a specific BCA textual problem and a more general account of an underappreciated category of Sanskrit word formation. (Source: Claude.ai)

Citation

Hahn, Michael. "Iti als Adverbialbilder." Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft (Journal of the German Oriental Society), Supplement III, 2: XIX. Deutscher Orientalistentag (1975) (1977): 854–63. http://menadoc.bibliothek.uni-halle.de/dmg/periodical/pageview/124679.

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