[INDOLOGY] 'catching the ocean in a cow's hoofprint'

huet gerard.huet at inria.fr
Mon Dec 23 18:24:48 UTC 2019


At entry goṣpada <https://sanskrit.inria.fr/DICO/25.html#go.spada> I noted this variant:
yāny ujjhahāra bhagavān vyāso vyākaraṇāmbudheḥ |  tāni kiṃ padaratnāni bhānti pāṇinigoṣpade 
which is attributed to Nārāyaṇa Bhaṭṭa by Ian Houben.

G. Huet


> Le 23 déc. 2019 à 17:58, Nagaraj Paturi via INDOLOGY <indology at list.indology.info> a écrit :
> 
> I came across this paper on a academia:
> 
> https://www.academia.edu/39702522/P%C4%81%E1%B9%87ini_Catching_the_Ocean_in_a_Cows_Hoofprint <https://www.academia.edu/39702522/P%C4%81%E1%B9%87ini_Catching_the_Ocean_in_a_Cows_Hoofprint>
> On Mon, Dec 23, 2019, 9:42 PM Antonia Ruppel via INDOLOGY <indology at list.indology.info <mailto:indology at list.indology.info>> wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> In the BBC radio series 'Incarnations', the episode on Pāṇini is entitled 'Catching the Ocean in a Cow's Hoofprint', which it says is a description of what Pāṇini's work achieved.
> 
> Can anyone tell me what the source of this expression specifically in reference to Pāṇini is? Textual/online searches for goṣpada- have not led me very far - but maybe I've been looking for the wrong word?
> 
> (In case anyone doesn't know 'Incarnations' and wants to listen to any of the episodes: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05rptbv/episodes/downloads <https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05rptbv/episodes/downloads>)
> 
> Many thanks and all the best,
>      Antonia
> 
>> Dr Antonia Ruppel
> University of Oxford
> 
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