maṅkal

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Meaning:	Carling and Pinault 2023: “blessing, bliss, auspicious sign or event”
Word class:	noun
Language:	TA
Equivalent in TB:	maṅkāl
Equivalent in other languages:	Skt. maṅgala-
Lexeme variants:	maṅkal
Number:	singular
Case:	nominative; accusative
Gender:	alternating

Paradigm

	sg	pl	du
nom	maṅkal	maṅkaläntu
voc
acc	maṅkal	maṅkaläntu
gen
loc
comit
inst
abl
perl
all
caus

Lexeme family

• maṅkal “blessing, bliss, auspicious sign or event” n

  	sg	pl
  nom	maṅkal	maṅkaläntu
  acc	maṅkal	maṅkaläntu

  • maṅkalṣi “auspicious”

    	pl.f
    acc	maṅkalṣinās

Occurrences

maṅkal

1	A 244 a3	; – aräṣ :	maṅkal	yāmu tñi ; pälskaṣi
2	A 355 a2	॥ cakkravarttis ; lānt	maṅkal	; ṣpät ñ(e)mintu ;
3	A 355 a2	; ṣpät ñ(e)mintu ;	maṅkal	n-äṃ ; wsāṣi cākrä
4	A 355 a2	cākrä : wlāññäktes ta;lo	maṅkal	; wairāvaṃ – – 1σ
5	A 355 a2	śkaṃ : tu ñi	maṅkal	; pkaṃ śpālmeṃ ;
6	A 355 a2	॥ samakkorrenaṃ ॥ tkaṃ-ñäktes	ma(ṅkal)	; – – – – – ; a3
7	A 355 a3	– – – – – ; a3 sāmudris	maṅkal	; ratnadvipänt· (:) sumer-ṣul(is)
8	A 355 a3	ratnadvipänt· (:) sumer-ṣul(is) ;	(maṅka)l	ñäkci ; sudarśaṃ ri
9	A 355 a3	; sudarśa ; riyis	maṅkal	; ñäkci wäl tu
10	A 355 a3	ñäkci wäl tu ñi	maṅkal	naṣt ; ṣak atsek
11	A 355 a3	– – – – ॥ pram (ñ)ä(ktes)	(maṅkal)	; (maitträ) (ño)a4m ploskeṃ
12	A 355 a4	wācrä ; wisṇuy śaṅk	maṅkal	(:) mahiśvara ; triśul
13	A 355 a4	(:) mahiśvara ; triśul	maṅkal	; waiśravaṃ lānt ;
14	A 355 a4	wal ; tu ñi	maṅka(l)	; (pukaṃ) (śpālmeṃ) (1)
15	A 356 a1	a1 (bram) ñ(ä)ktes	maṅkal	maitträ ño(m) plyaskeṃ wlāññäktes
16	A 356 a1	wlāññäktes vājrä viṣṇuy śaṅk	maṅkal	• mahiśvari a2 (triśu)l
17	A 356 a2	• mahiśvari a2 (triśu)l	maṅkal	vaiśravaṃ lānt bha(draka)lp – –
18	A 356 a3	ñäktaśi wäl tu ni	maṅkal	pukaṃ śpāa4lmeṃ : dhithya

Bibliography

Carling and Pinault 2023

Carling, Gerd, and Georges-Jean Pinault. 2023. Dictionary and thesaurus of Tocharian A. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.