vaca
वाचा vācāSpeech, the spoken word, utterance. The Hindī form stays inside the Sanskrit range of vāc, the oldest and most sacrally loaded noun for saying that the tradition has, and it recurs densely across the printed Śābara compilations.
Where this term appears
- Duhāī: eight books, counted Treatise
Across eight independently compiled printed Śābara books, from six publishing houses in Delhi, Vārāṇasī and Prayāg, the most frequent recurrent marker is दुहाई,…
- The healer and the witch Treatise
The woman a village sends for when a child is feverish holds one capacity, and it is understood to point both ways. Whether she is called a healer or a witch is…
- The philology of unintelligibility Treatise
*Anmil ākhar*, ill-matched letters, is best read as a verdict on how the syllables are dressed: badly assorted, wrong for the sound of sacred speech, and effective…
- The six acts Treatise
The *ṣaṭkarma*, the six acts, is the grid the Sanskrit mantric compendia use to sort magical ritual, and it does not organise the Śābara corpus. In the few pages…
- Vācā, phuro, ājñā Treatise
Two of the three words counted here are features of the printed popular Śābara corpus, and the third is a feature of one book. *Vācā*, speech, and *phuro*, a verb…