Giri (5720)

Giri
Entry 5720, Page 211, Col. 2

(giri, giri)
Giri¦, n. of a nāga-king (cf. next): Māy 246.32. In LV 393.3 (vs) I am doubtful of -giri-, which seems to stand for a form of gir(ā), speech, words, and suggest em. to -gira-, m.c. for -girā, see prec. Text apagata-giri-vākpatho hy alipto, said of the Buddha: unstained, because beyond the range of speech in words; in Skt. (atīta-)vākpatha (not well defined in BR) means (beyond) the range of words, inexpressi- ble, indescribable; some such meaning must be involved here. Mss. vākyatho, but Tib., otherwise not clear, confirms a form of -path(a): tshig bral dag gi lam (= way) gyis (inst.; does this point to a reading -pathā?) mi gos pa, which seems to mean not stained by the way of those deprived of speech. But Calc. and Foucaux understand apagatagiri as a separate word (loc. absolute), which may be right.

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