[INDOLOGY] mythologies of the pearl

[Martin Straube]

Dear Paolo,

see also: Heinrich Lüders, Sanskrit muktā, muktāphala, phala, in:  
Zeitschrift für vergleichende Sprachforschung auf dem Gebiete der  
Indogermanischen Sprachen 42, 1909, pp. 193-206; reprinted in: id.,  
Philologica Indica. Ausgewählte Kleine Schriften, Göttingen 1940, pdf  
available here: https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/lueders1940

Best wishes
Martin

Zitat von "Paolo E. Rosati via INDOLOGY" <indology at list.indology.info>:

> Dear all,
>
> while I was reading Eliade's *Images and Symbols*, my attention was struck
> by his vague reference to an "oriental mythology", which affirms that the
> pearl was born from the penetration of a lightning inside a shell/oyster.
>
> I think he got this information from *Realencyclopädie der Classischen
> Altertumswissenschaft* (entry: "Margaritai"), but I am not sure at all.
>
> Can someone indicate a more specific reference to this myth? or to other
> myths related to the pearl?
>
> With my best wishes,
> Paolo
>
> --
> *Paolo E. Rosati*
>
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-- 
Martin Straube
Research Fellow in Pali Lexicography
The Pali Text Society
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