Khotanese varga‑ ‘fruit (of an action)’: a Buddhist term borrowed from Bactrian

Schoubben, N.

doi:doi:10.1163/15728536-06803005

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Schoubben, N. (2025)

Khotanese varga‑ ‘fruit (of an action)’: a Buddhist term borrowed from Bactrian

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The present article has a twofold aim: (i) to present further evidence that (Late) Khotanese had a lexeme varga‑ ‘fruit (of an action)’, next to the homonymous varga‑ ‘group, mass, multitude’ (borrowed from Buddhist Sanskrit); and (ii) to argue that varga‑ ‘fruit (of an action)’ is not an inherited word but a loan from Bactrian *βαργο /vargə/ < *bara-ka‑, which is attested in Manichaean Bactrian as ꞵrg ‘fruit (of an action)’.