Khotanese varga‑ ‘fruit (of an action)’: A Buddhist Term Borrowed from Bactrian
The present article has a twofold aim: (i) to present further evidence that (Late) Khotanese had a lexeme varga‑ ‘fruit (of an action)’, next to the homonymous varga‑ ‘group, mass, multitude’ (borrowed from Buddhist Sanskrit); and (ii) to argue that varga‑ ‘fruit (of an action)’ is not an inherited...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2025
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Indo-Iranian journal
Year: 2025, Volume: 68, Issue: 4, Pages: 311-329 |
| Further subjects: | B
Buddhist terminology
B Manichaeism B Bactrian B loanwords B Khotanese |
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| Summary: | The present article has a twofold aim: (i) to present further evidence that (Late) Khotanese had a lexeme varga‑ ‘fruit (of an action)’, next to the homonymous varga‑ ‘group, mass, multitude’ (borrowed from Buddhist Sanskrit); and (ii) to argue that varga‑ ‘fruit (of an action)’ is not an inherited word but a loan from Bactrian *βαργο /vargə/ < *bara-ka‑, which is attested in Manichaean Bactrian as ꞵrg ‘fruit (of an action)’. |
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| ISSN: | 1572-8536 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Indo-Iranian journal
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15728536-06803005 |
