kṣatra (5343)

kṣatra
Entry 5343, Page 198, Col. 2

(kzatra, kzatra)
kṣatra¦ (nt.) = kṣetra, field. Cf. Pali DN 3.93.13 khettānaṃ patī ti…khattiyo (in an etymology), which shows that a popular association of kṣatriya with kṣetra (or of their MIndic equivalents) existed. Doubtless as a result of this, the secondary etymological blend-form kṣatra occurs often in LV, as in 208.13; 283.8; 352.18; 354.14, 22; 355.16; 357.4; 366.8; in all these all mss. and Lefm. kṣa°; in LV 290.8, 15; 353.1 Lefm. kṣe° but most mss. kṣa°. The mss. of Mv also--sometimes nearly all of them--read kṣa°, as in v.l. for kṣe° at i.121.9, 11, 12; 122.1, 2. In all these cases there is no doubt of the mg. field; it seems to me that Lefm. was right in recognizing the existence in BHS of kṣatra in this sense, because of its frequent occurrence, which the etym. in DN supports.

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