History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v6.c82.404.2

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29).870a The Greek word is *horos* (boundary). All the words used by Varāha and supposed to be Greek by Weber, Kern and others may be brought together in one place here (37 in all), Kriya, Tāvuri, Jituma, Kulīra, Leya, Pāthena, Jūka, Kaurpya, Tauksika, Akokera, Hṛdroga, Ittha (?), Heli, Āra, Himna, Jīva, Āsphujit, Kona; horā, dreṣkāṇa, kendra, trikoṇa, panaphara, āpoklima, mesūraṇa, duścikya, hibuka, jāmitra, dyūna, rihpha, anaphā, sunaphā, durudharā, kemadruma, veśi, liptā, harija. I dispute the derivation of *kulīra* and trikoṇa from Greek and Kern agrees that they are pure Sanskrit words. I also doubt whether Jīva is an adaptation of Zeus. Zeus agrees with Sanskrit Dyaus and not with Jīva and Zeus is an Indo-European word meaning ‘Heaven’ or ‘sky’. The different forms of the word dreskāṇa or ‘*dyūtam* for ‘*dyūnam*’ should not be separately counted The word *horā* is used in early Indian astrology in three different senses, none of which agrees with the sense of hour. It is possible that even in Greek it is a word borrowed from Egypt or Babylonia, since in the definite sense of an hour, it is much later and it is doubtful whether Hipparchus (140 B. C ) uses it in that sense. If we exclude these four words only 33 words may at the most be argued to have been adapted from Greek.