Dear Dave,

I have just revised my encoding for that Campā inscription. Try out the same 
link again (https://dharmalekha.info/texts/INSCIC00175). The URL for the 2012 
publication leads to a pdf of the same.
The Cambodian inscription K. 1216 will also be of interest to you 
(https://dharmalekha.info/texts/INSCIK01216) as will K. 895 (which we still 
need to encode).
I will be very happy to be informed if you learn more about this association 
between Jaim(a/i)ni and co. and lightning strike.

Best wishes,

Arlo






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From: Buchta, David <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2025 2:27 AM
To: Arlo Griffiths <[email protected]>
Cc: Asko Parpola <[email protected]>; Indology List 
<[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [INDOLOGY] nāga-stotra

Well, this is somewhat embarrassing. I am now returning to a set of songs by 
Rūpa Gosvāmin that I must have been looking at while working on my 
dissertation, but which I decided not to include (grantha-gaurava-bhayāt) and 
set aside. I honestly do not remember my post to this listserv from 2011, and 
I'm failing to find it again by searching the listserv archive.

Thank you, Asko, for the valuable entry on Jaimini.

And thanks to Arlo for the very helpful reference. Now I have a concrete (or, 
well, stone) and dateable reference for the connection of Jaimini's name to 
warding off lighting. It is noteworthy that the first half of the second verse 
cited by Baladeva is identical with the reading that you suggest, Arlo, "by 
emending less conservatively."
--
David Buchta, PhD
Senior Lecturer in Sanskrit
Department of Classics
Brown University


On Mon, Jan 13, 2025 at 11:37 AM Arlo Griffiths 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
I don’t remember the 2011 discussion, so at the risk of repeating myself, allow 
me to share this short Sanskrit text related to Dave’s verses:
<https://dharmalekha.info/texts/INSCIC00175>
Bottom part of architectural crown from Khánh Lễ - 
DHARMA<https://dharmalekha.info/texts/INSCIC00175>
dharmalekha.info<https://dharmalekha.info/texts/INSCIC00175>
[X]<https://dharmalekha.info/texts/INSCIC00175>

Arlo Griffiths


Dikirim dari iPhone saya

Pada 13 Jan 2025, pukul 21.56, Asko Parpola via INDOLOGY 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> menulis:


Dear Dave,

Jaimini as a name counteracting thunder is known to me only from your earlier 
2011 post on the subject.

Otherwise Jaimini has figured much in my research. I attach my 2023 
encyclopedia article on Jaimini and Bādarāyaṇa.

With best regards and wishes, Asko Parpola


On 12. Jan 2025, at 20.52, Buchta, David via INDOLOGY 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

Dear colleagues,

I'm seeking information about a nāga-stotra.
Baladeva Vidyābhūṣaṇa (!8th century) cites these verses in his commentary to a 
song by Rūpa Gosvāmin:

muneḥ kalyāṇamitrasya jaimineś cāpi kīrtanāt
vidyud-agni-bhayaṃ nāsti likhite ca gṛhodare
jaiminiś ca sumantuś ca vaiśampāyana eva ca
pulastyaḥ pulahaś caiva pañcaite vajra-vāraṇāḥ

I have found these verses on many websites (usually in the opposite order, and 
with a few minor variants) as part of a nāga-stotra supposed to be recited on 
nāga-pañcamī.

Does anyone know anything more about this text? Is it part of a larger Purāṇa 
or the like? Or just a traditionally transmitted floating stotra? I'd also be 
happy to hear about any other sources for this idea of reciting sages' names 
(especially Jaimini) to counteract fear caused by thunder.

Thanks,
Dave
--
David Buchta, PhD
Senior Lecturer in Sanskrit
Department of Classics
Brown University

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