hastināga (17657)

hastināga
Entry 17657, Page 618, Col. 2

(hastinAga, hastinAga)
hastināga¦, m. (= Pali hatthi°, see PTSD s.v. nāga, [Page619-a+ 70] and Andersen's Reader, Glossary, an excellent elephant), acc. to pw (citing Divy) ein fürstlicher Elephant; this fits some BHS passages well enough, and may be meant in Pali Vv. comm. 37.8 hatthināga as gloss on nāga of text (this elephant was indeed a fine one); but it is not always clear that it means more than (any) elephant (they are all noble beasts); one suspects sometimes that hasti- may be prefixed to distinguish this from nāga, serpent: Mv ii.70.7; 74.12 ff.; Divy 74.2 ff.; 286.28 f.; 334.15 (read with mss.); 370.26. (In late Skt. Hastināgapura occurs as n. of a city, Schmidt, Nachträge; and acc. to Sheth, Pkt. Hatthiṇāgapura, or the like, = Hastināpura.)

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