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Charting 'Wilderness' (araṇya) in Brahmanical and Buddhist Texts

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Charting 'Wilderness' (araṇya) in Brahmanical and Buddhist Texts

[Article]

Paolo Visigalli

Leiden

Brill

The essay demonstrates the longevity and pervasiveness of Indic and Indic-derived etymological analyses (nirvacana) across literary traditions, in Sanskrit, Pāli, and Chinese. To exemplify different indigenous approaches to etymology, the essay explores emic analyses of the word araṇya 'wilderness'. It traces the analyses found in Chāndogya Upaniṣad (8.5) and in the works of the etymologists (Nirukta) and grammarians (vyākaraṇa; uṇādisūtra). It also considers Paramārtha's nirvacana-inspired analysis of Chinese alianruo 阿練若 (araṇya), and identifies a similar analysis in Aggavaṃsa's Saddanīti. The essay shows etymological analyses' sophistication and variety of purposes. The essay demonstrates the longevity and pervasiveness of Indic and Indic-derived etymological analyses (nirvacana) across literary traditions, in Sanskrit, Pāli, and Chinese. To exemplify different indigenous approaches to etymology, the essay explores emic analyses of the word araṇya 'wilderness'. It traces the analyses found in Chāndogya Upaniṣad (8.5) and in the works of the etymologists (Nirukta) and grammarians (vyākaraṇa; uṇādisūtra). It also considers Paramārtha's nirvacana-inspired analysis of Chinese alianruo 阿練若 (araṇya), and identifies a similar analysis in Aggavaṃsa's Saddanīti. The essay shows etymological analyses' sophistication and variety of purposes.

2019

162-180

Indo-Iranian Journal

62/2

1572-8536

alianruo 阿練若

araṇya

Chāndogya Upaniṣad

emic linguistic analysis

nirukta/nirvacana

Paramārtha (Zhendi 真諦)

vyākaraṇa

wilderness

Paolo Visigalli

10.1163/15728536-06202002

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