Adding 'Sri' to a noun

[Guest guest]

What are the earliest instances of adding 'Sri' to a noun (e.g., Sri

Rama, Sri Lakshmi, Sri Nagar)?

 

Thanks.

[Guest guest]

Several years ago I published an article on the occurrences of "zrI" in Indian

inscriptions: 1993: "Inscriptional Evidence for Honorific zrI in Indo-Aryan."

In

Perspectives in Indian Aesthetics and Literature, Essays in Honour of the Late

Prof. Dr.

G. K. Bhat, edited by Saroj Deshpande and Maneesha Dikshit. Pp. 254-278. Pune,

India: Dastane Ramchandra & Co. In my observations in that article, the word

zrI is

not found in the earliest phase of Indian inscriptions, but begins to appear in

Sanskrit

and Prakrit inscriptions from the 1st century B.C. For instance the oldest

Satavahana

inscription (Nanaghat Cave Inscription of Satakani, 2nd half of the first

century B.C.)

refers to the king as siri-satakani.

 

Madhav Deshpande

 

 

 

INDOLOGY, "yaksh12000" <yaksh12000> wrote:

>

> What are the earliest instances of adding 'Sri' to a noun (e.g., Sri

> Rama, Sri Lakshmi, Sri Nagar)?

>

> Thanks.

>

[Guest guest]

Thank you very much for the information. Interesting to note that

you had published an article on that topic sometime ago.

I was checking the Satavahanas after reading your post – few of them

had `Sri' embedded into their names, if not prefixed as in the case

of Satakani in the inscription. His own father was Srimukha, and one

of the later day Queen-mothers was Balasri. My interest is in the

honorific `Sri' , though it may be occasionally difficult to

distinguish the two situations.

What about the occurrences in ancient texts like puranas and

ithihasas (prior to those that mention Satavahanas)? Was `Sri

Madbhagavatam' originally called just `bhagavatam"? In Bhagawadgita,

was it `Bhagawan uvacha' in olden days?

 

 

INDOLOGY, "Madhav M. Deshpande" <mmdesh@U...>

wrote:

>

> Several years ago I published an article on the occurrences

of "zrI" in Indian

> inscriptions: 1993: "Inscriptional Evidence for Honorific zrI in

Indo-Aryan." In

> Perspectives in Indian Aesthetics and Literature, Essays in Honour

of the Late Prof. Dr.

> G. K. Bhat, edited by Saroj Deshpande and Maneesha Dikshit. Pp.

254-278. Pune,

> India: Dastane Ramchandra & Co. In my observations in that

article, the word zrI is

> not found in the earliest phase of Indian inscriptions, but begins

to appear in Sanskrit

> and Prakrit inscriptions from the 1st century B.C. For instance

the oldest Satavahana

> inscription (Nanaghat Cave Inscription of Satakani, 2nd half of

the first century B.C.)

> refers to the king as siri-satakani.

>

> Madhav Deshpande

>