Ricerc@Sapienza

The Khotanese word Zambasta 17.14 ba??ä means ‘monsoon rains’, not ‘torrents’, and is a loanword from Gandhari going ultimately back to Sanskrit var?a? ‘rain(y season); year’. Recognition that the Khotanese word occurring in Suvar?a­bh?sottamas?tra 10.40 and so far read bihare in manuscript Or. 59 and ]?hare in manuscript Q should actually be read biha?e ‘dwells’, a loanword ultimately from Sanskrit viharati allows a more accurate translation of the passage.