ajanya (219)

ajanya
Entry 219, Page 7, Col. 1

(ajanya, ajanya)
ajanya¦ (cf. Pali ajañña), prob. ignoble, debased: ajanyasya brāhmaṇasya putro Mv i.319.12; 321.16; 323.7; said of Jyotipāla; since he was a friend of a potter's son, [Page007-b+ 71] his father may have been an outcaste brahman. Senart assumes mg. noble, on grounds which I find unconvincing The mg. I assume fits the Pali ajañña, Jāt, ii.437.17 In Mv iii.119.23 prob. read with v.l. anajanyarathā, not ignoble chariots, for ajanya° of text. (Meter is bad in either case.) In Kv 42.10 for na jatyeṣu read perhaps nājanyeṣu, not among ignoble people; see s.v. jatya.

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