Urasmaa vs. Uurusmaa
From: navako
Message: 1174
Date: 2005-06-22
Following Kacc. verse 274 I find the example:
"Urasmaa jaato putto."
This strikes me as a bit odd.
(1) Could "Ura" (chest) here be confused with "Uuru" (thigh)? All the
editions I've seen render it "Ura" consistently.
(2) Is this a reference to a specific Hindu myth I am unaware of, e.g., how
the various castes were born from the various parts of a divine body? Or,
perhaps, the supernatural birth of some god/hero?
(3) Is this simply a "normal usage" in Pali, i.e., to speak of being "born
from the heart" of one's mother, in an abstract sense?
I couldn't find any comparable phrase in the Suttapi.taka using the usual
computer search.
E.M.
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