khajjuuri

From: Stephen Hodge
Message: 1676
Date: 2006-03-05

Dear Ole,

Not strictly a Pali problem, but you are probably the most likely person
here to be able to answer this.  I am trying to reconstruct a word --
actually a name -- from Tibetan and Chinese sources.  The Tibetan indicates
that the word, if the base text was Sanskrit, would have been "kharjuuri",
while the Chinese seems to have had some form of Prakrit yeilding "khayuuri"
or "khayyuuri".  Is this feasible -- I assume something like "kharjuuri" ->
"khajjuuri" -> "khayyuuri" ?  There is other textual evidence that the text
in question was from central west or central south India c.150CE.  Any idea
what sort of Prakrit might have been involved -- I think I have seen this
kind of sound change in Ardha-magadhi.

Best wishes,
Stephen Hodge



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