Re: Urasmaa vs. Uurusmaa

Eisel:

I think this is probably connected to exegesis of orasa, although CPD
II thinks 'ura' is sometimes confused with 'udara' and Senart thought
there was a Buddhist Sanskrit ura in the sense of 'womb'.

Lance

>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.