[Buddha-l] Eternalism

[jkirk]

Hi Jayarava,

Did you look here? 
In, Whitney's _Roots, Verb-forms and Primary Derivatives_
http://www.archive.org/stream/rootsverbformspr00whitrich

I tried (because I love looking up roots). Recklessly exposing my ignorance I'll offer the following hunches, which may of course be entirely irrelevant:

could it be related to the root sah = prevail --p.184 
p.212 top of page one can find root form sas coming before sah on the list 
v2. vaa = weave  p. 157; one form that appears is vaataa
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In M-W: vaTa [surrounded, covered], vata, vata, vAta,  etc--

Best,
Joanna
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Apologies for having to drop out of the philosophy debate, my health is not good at the moment. 

A colleague has asked me about the meaning of sassatadiṭṭhi (sassatadi.t.thi) which PED equates sassata to Vedic śaśvat ('sa'svat). The meaning "eternalism", with an emphasis on recurrance, seems clear enough, but I have been unable to identify the verbal root. There is śaś "leap" but can this be it? Can anyone help with this?

The Pali phrase occurs quite rarely and I am thinking about following it up, at least for my blog.

Thanks
Jayarava


      

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