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On a special meaning of jána- in the Rgveda

On a special meaning of jána- in the Rgveda STEFAN ZIMMER ON A S P E C I A L M E A N I N G OF J A N A - IN T H E . R G V E D A * For the Old Indian word j{ma-, the authorities give different meanings: Otto B6htlingk and Rudolph Roth, in their Petersburg dictionary o f 1855-1875 give the following translations: "creature, man, person, people (as collective singular or as plural), family, race", adding some special cases. Sir Monier Monier-Williams in his Sanskrit-English dictionary of 1872, 2nd edition 1899, understands the primary meaning o f our word as "generating" and translates it as follows: "creature, living being, man, person, race, people, subjects (also as collective singular)". Hermann Grassmann, in his still most important and undispensible "W6rterbuch zum Rig-Veda" o f 1872 indicates a primary meaning "animate being, man" and gives 15 different German translation words. For him, the singular ofj{tna- is normally collective, and further meanings are "troop, host; tribe, nation, race; the whole mankind" plus some other special meanings. Heinrich Zimmer, in his painstaking "Altindisches Leben. Die Cultur der vedischen Arier nach den Sam. hitg dargestellt" (1879) confirmed that fdna- designates the tribe, "the highest http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Indo-Iranian Journal Brill

On a special meaning of jána- in the Rgveda

Zimmer, Stefan
Indo-Iranian Journal , Volume 29 (2): 109 – Jan 1, 1986
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© 1986 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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STEFAN ZIMMER ON A S P E C I A L M E A N I N G OF J A N A - IN T H E . R G V E D A * For the Old Indian word j{ma-, the authorities give different meanings: Otto B6htlingk and Rudolph Roth, in their Petersburg dictionary o f 1855-1875 give the following translations: "creature, man, person, people (as collective singular or as plural), family, race", adding some special cases. Sir Monier Monier-Williams in his Sanskrit-English dictionary of 1872, 2nd edition 1899, understands the primary meaning o f our word as "generating" and translates it as follows: "creature, living being, man, person, race, people, subjects (also as collective singular)". Hermann Grassmann, in his still most important and undispensible "W6rterbuch zum Rig-Veda" o f 1872 indicates a primary meaning "animate being, man" and gives 15 different German translation words. For him, the singular ofj{tna- is normally collective, and further meanings are "troop, host; tribe, nation, race; the whole mankind" plus some other special meanings. Heinrich Zimmer, in his painstaking "Altindisches Leben. Die Cultur der vedischen Arier nach den Sam. hitg dargestellt" (1879) confirmed that fdna- designates the tribe, "the highest

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