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A. V. WILLIAMS JACKSON: The Term ročvarmh in a Turkish Mani

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GEORGE MELVILLE BOLLING: The Meaning of rov in Homer..
ALBERT D. MENUT: Doublets in the Language of Rabelais.

R-M. S. HEFFNER: álpast, álka: skupla, hekla...

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THE TERM ročvarmh IN A TURKISH MANICHAEAN

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A. V. WILLIAMS JACKSON

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

[The term means 'Breastplate of Light', and is to be connected with an Avestan *raočů . vārǝ@man-. Discussion of the phonetic and morphologic questions raised by this interpretation.]

The term ročvarmh in a Turkish Manichaean text is thus far quotable only once, but is evidently of Iranian origin. It occurs in Le Coq's Türkische Manichaica aus Chotscho, III, p. 13, l. 11, near the middle of Fragment Nr. 6, iii. T. II, D. 173 c, 2, recto. Le Coq transcribes and translates the text (lines 10-11) as follows:

bu bu bil gä kisi[ning]

blgüsi.. (rot:) ročvarmh

'Dies (aber), dies ist das Anzeichen des

weisen Mannes (rot) ročvarmh.'

It will be observed that in the manuscript this word ročvarmh (i.e. rōčvārmh, both vowels long) is written in red ink for emphasis and is preceded by two dots, a common punctuation mark which is here practically equivalent to a comma used to indicate that the term in question is included as a further explanation of the true sign of the wise man. The context shows that the sentence is complete, and it stands not far from the beginning of this forty-line Fragment, the whole of which relates to the Auditors and the proper use of the body (cf. also the summary of contents by Le Coq, op. cit. p. 4).

Perhaps we can do something towards determining the etymology and meaning of ročvarmh (rōčvārmh) as a Middle Persian word in the Turkish text. We certainly cannot connect it etymologically with the familiar term brahm, 'robe', in Turfan and Book Pahlavi, as designating in Manichaeism the raiment of light with which the Elect were invested on entering heaven, more especially because the Auditor could obtain that reward only through rebirth as an Elect;1 but this designa1 A collection of material relating to brahm, 'robe', is reserved for presentation elsewhere.

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