[INDOLOGY] help with a word

[Raffaele Torella]

I wish to thank colleagues for their valuable suggestions, sent both to the list and to me personally. 	

In fact, what first came to my mind was the emendation kṛśānu- (which still remains the best candidate...). However, contrary to a widespread practice, I am always very cautious in emending a transmitted reading. I believe that the main task of a philologist is not simply re-writing the transmitted text according to his expectation and intuition (both important, of course), but trying to understand how the alleged “mistake” has taken place. For this, a paleographic awareness is essential.

My heartfelt thanks to the colleagues for their responses (and to the List as a whole!).
Raffaele

> Il giorno 25 apr 2024, alle ore 21:14, Dániel Balogh <danbalogh at gmail.com> ha scritto:
> 
> Wouldn't emendation to kṛṣāṇu (=kṛśānu) make sense? Depending on the script, I guess ṇḍa and ṇu could be very easy to confuse.
> 
> On Thu, 25 Apr 2024 at 19:47, Raffaele Torella via INDOLOGY <indology at list.indology.info <mailto:indology at list.indology.info>> wrote:
>> Dear Colleagues,
>> 
>> in the course of my critical edition (in progress) of Vāmanadatta’s Saṃvitprakāśa I met with a word I can’t identify. The three extant manuscripts read: kṛṣāṇḍa or kṛśāṇḍa.
>> 
>> kṛṣāṇḍaśatasaṃkāśaṃ naumi te <’>vyaktarūpiṇaḥ |
>> niḥśeṣakalmaṣaploṣapāvakaṃ tāvakaṃ vapuḥ ||
>> 
>> Thanks for any suggestion!
>> Raffaele
>> 
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