The Journal of the American Oriental Society, April 1st, 2002
Sanskrit sardigrdi- 'portio vaginalis' (Das 1998) may be analyzed as a compound *'vaginapenis'. The first member is derived from a PIE verbal root *serd(h)- 'wipe, rub', reflexes of which are used in Germanic to refer to sexual intercourse.
IT IS A GREAT PLEASURE to offer in honor of my good friend Stanley Insler the following modest contribution towards elucidating the prehistory of an obscure Sanskrit lexeme. The first appearance of sardigrdi- is in the (in)famous passage of the Asvamedha Ritual where various participants recite verses with very explicit sexual content while the queen has i...
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