--- In [email protected], "mark robert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >
<snip> > -------------------- > > > > Cardemaister, > > > > Thank-you for the alternate translation. Is it yours? > Oh no, I forgot to mention it's Ralph T.H. Griffith's: http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/rigveda/rvi09.htm > > > The original you kindly supplied looks different than the > original supplied on the site. For example, you supplied: > > vR^iShaa\'NaM\` vR^iSha\'bhir ya\`taM su\`nvanti\` soma\`m > adri\'bhiH |\\ > du\`hanti\` shakma\'naa\` payaH\' || \EN{9}{034}{03} \\ > > > > But the site supplied: > > v&;a?[</ v&;?i-r� y/t< su/NviNt/ saem/m! Ai�?i-> , > �/hiNt/ zKm?na/ py>? . 9 -034 -03 It seems to me that's encoded devanaagarii (the script Sanskrit usually is written in) , or something. I guess you need to have some Sanskrit font to see it in DN. > > > > Of course I know nothing of Sanskrit, so maybe they are the same. > > > > Anyway, I suppose that's less important than my main interest in > the real meaning - What the heck do you suppose they were > crushing / pressing? Yes, I know it was Soma, but how does that > jive with something that MMY says is internal? So, then my > question becomes � If Soma was external, what was its identity? In my understanding no-one knows for sure. For instance fly agaric (amanita muscaria) has been suggested, but I don't think that's very likely. > > -Mark To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
