कश्चिद्भ्यः

[T.K Gopalan]

Friends,

In the following text from the Sanskrit ‘Merchant of Venice’, what precisely would be the meaning of कश्चिद्भ्यः?

अस्ति सकलाशाविश्रुता वसुन्धरालङ्कारभूता विनिशा नाम नगरी। आसीत्तत्र शैलेशनामा कश्चिद्भ्यो वार्धुषिकः।

Thanks.

T K Gopalan

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[Mohan Chettoor]

कः is derived from the नकारान्तः पुँल्लिङ्गः 'किं' शब्दः meaning 'who'. Indefinite pronouns are formed by the addition of 'चित्' , 'चन' or 'अपि' to the various cases of this word in all the genders (e.g. कश्चित्) The words thus formed are अव्ययम् s which cannot have vibhakthi forms. 

My contention is that the word कश्चिद्भ्यः is a misnomer.

I am subject to correction.

Mohan Chettoor 

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[Mohan Chettoor]

Please read मकारान्तः instead of नकारान्तः in my post above.

Mohan Chettoor 

[Harunaga Isaacson]

The text as printed is different. As you can see here,
https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.485825/page/n65/mode/2up
instead of कश्चिद्भ्यः, which indeed would not make sense at all,
what is printed is
कश्चिदिभ्यो , i.e. two words, the second of which is the 1st case
masculine singular form of the adjective इभ्य, in the sense of "rich".

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[Harunaga Isaacson]

In my message just now instead of

"instead of कश्चिद्भ्यः"

read:
"instead of कश्चिद्भ्यः or कश्चिद्भ्यो".

[T.K Gopalan]

Thank you very much Harunaga Isaacson.

Indeed it is कश्चिदिभ्यः [वार्धुषिकः] a certain wealthy [banker], which I misread.

A thousand apologies to all who responded.
Regards

T K Gopalan

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