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    Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dictionary

    ☞ p. 66, col. 1.
    ar(t)tiyati or °tīyati, °te; in one doubtful passage

    perhaps ārtī°, otherwise always art° when not fused in

    saṃdhi with preceding vowel; forms occurring include

    ar(t)tīyati, °yanti, °tīyate, °tiyante, °tīyanto and °taṃ

    (pres. pple.), aritīyeran (! read art°), artita (ppp.); also

    ārtīyate (? v.l. attī°); attīyantā (and probably attīyate

    for prec.); ṛtīyate, °yante, °yamāna (pres. pple.; for ṛt°

    we usually find rit° written); ardīyamāna (pres. pple.);

    āstīryati; and noun attīyanā. The corresp. Pali (see CPD)

    is written aṭṭīyati, aṭṭhī°, aḍḍhī°, addiyati. Despite all

    this confusion, there is no doubt that we are dealing with

    essentially one word, with modifications due to diverse

    influences, including popular etymology and hyper-Sktism.

    Wogihara, ZDMG 58.454, gives the ‘correct form’ as

    ṛtīyate (which, or rather usually rit°, is customary in Bbh,

    but I believe occurs nowhere else), and the mg. as er

    schämt sich; both statements are wrong, I believe. As to

    mg., Wogihara was evidently influenced by the fact that

    the word is often associated in Pali with harāyati, jiguc-

    chati, and in BHS with jehrīyate, (vi)jugupsati, or equiv-

    alents. But it is also often used where shame cannot be

    involved. Most likely the MIndic word is a denominative

    from ārti (for which arti, with semi-MIndic shortening,

    is recorded even in Skt.). All forms are included here since

    the word is clearly a unit, but they are also entered under

    the several heading: (1) is grieved, perturbed, distressed:

    Mv i.219.17 = ii.21.19 kecit saṃsārapāśena arttiyante

    (ii.21.19 saṃsāracāreṇa artīyanti) yathā aham (said by

    the infant Bodhisattva), are distressed; Mv ii.161.7 bo-

    dhisattvo jātīye arttīyanto, being pained by (or, on ac-

    count of) birth, 11--12…maraṇena artt°, 13 śokehi artt°;

    Mv ii.242.13 arttīyati (Senart em. attī°); Mv i.89.18

    (ākīrṇavihāreṇa) nārtīyanti; Mv ii.480.7 śokārtita; LV

    174.14 jarārtita; Bbh 166.11 ṛtīyamānaḥ (of a Bodhisattva);

    Bbh 171.9 ritīyamānaṃ. (2) In some transitional cases,

    leading over to the next group, the additional note of

    aversion, revulsion seems more or less clearly present:

    Bbh 282.7--8 tena pūrvakeṇādhimokṣeṇāritīyeran (read

    °ṇārtīyeran; but in same phrase line 23 °mokṣeṇa ritīyante),

    they would be annoyed by, sick of, disgusted with their for-

    mer enthusiasm; Bbh 168.23 ritīyate; Mvy 1830 nārtīyate

    (no context); (3) like preceding but accompanied by

    parallel forms of hrī-, jugups-, or the like: SP 108.6

    daridracintayārtīyantaṃ jehrīyamāṇaṃ jugupsamānaṃ,

    distressed, ashamed, disgusted by the thought of being poor;

    Mv i.343.1 (tena adharmeṇa) attīyantā (Senart em. artī°)

    vijigupsantā or °satā (mss. °satāṃ, evidently pres. pple.,

    Senart em. wrongly °sitā) distressed and disgusted by this

    immorality; Karmav 47.26 āstīryati jihreti vigarhati

    vijugupsati, is distressed, ashamed, offended, disgusted (by

    acts he has done); 49.2; Divy 39.7 ye 'nena pūtikāyen-

    ārdīyamānā jehrīyante vijugupsamānāḥ, being distressed,

    are ashamed, disgusted; (4) with abl., feels aversion (from):

    MadhK 297.2, text ārtīyate (ebhyo dharmebhyo), but v.l.

    attīyate, so prob. read; followed by jehrīyate vitarati

    vijugupsate; in line 4 below (see note 1) mss. dharmebhyo

    attīyanā (text artī°) vijugupsanā (nouns).