[Buddha-l] 9. Attadiipaa Sutta (Joy Vriens)

Mitchell Ginsberg jinavamsa at yahoo.com
Fri May 7 00:33:45 MDT 2010


hello Joy and all, 
The Pali diipa can mean, as you point out, either island or lamp (source of light). 
The Sanskrit has two different words that would each/both correspond to diipa in Pali: dviipa and diipa. 
The first is said to derive from the root dviipa meaning two waters (dvi = 2 + ap/aapas), and hence island, while the second is associated with the root dii/diip (dviipyate), shine, hence, a lamp. 
Or so it is said by some. 
Now, how the phrase shows up in different Sanskrit texts is perhaps the next question. 
Mitchell 
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