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----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2005 2:56
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Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Proper
spelling
--- In [email protected],
"at_man_and_brahman"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]...>
wrote:
> My understanding of why Maharishi
> did that was to
underscore that
> Sanskrit formalizes the general
> linguistic
principle that consonants
> must be "voiced," with a following
>
vowel. By default, the vowel is "a,"
> though the other vowels can be
used
> if specified. In this "northern thing,"
> the consonants
voiced with "a" are
> left without the written "a" just because
>
it's already there by default in the
> pronunciation.
>
>
For instance, in order to pronounce
> "yog," you have to voice "a" very
quickly
> to get out the final consonant. Pronouncing
> yog-a,
makes the "a" much more emphasized
> than it needs to be.
>
> Cardemeister, who apparently has expert
> credentials in
Sanskrt, can probably add
> clarity here.
Dunno about
"credentials" and "clarity".
As to Sanskrit, I'm just a
dilettante.
I think at first Maharishi wrote "Jaya Shrii
Guru Deva".
Later it was changed to "Jai Guru
Dev". IMO, the latter is the Hindi
version
of the former.
In the devanaagarii script the
consonant
characters contain "by default" a *short* 'a'.
Syllables
containing any other vowels have
a special diacritic to indicate that. If a
word
doesn't have the short 'a' at its end, there's
a special diacritic
calle "viraama" that "eliminates"
it from the consonant
character.
http://www.saunalahti.fi/~ehei/naasad.jpg
(In
addition there are special charaters
for initial vowels, for instance the
first
character in a chapter.)
http://www.hermetics.org/images/gif/aVedicSanskrit.gif
(initial
vowels characters - diacritics attachet to
consonant
characters)
Hindi is also mostly written in devanaagarii,
I believe.
It's weird that in transliterated
Hindi at least the short a-letters at the
end
of words seem to be mostly dropped out but when
one listens to
Hindi, it seems like they are
pronounced anyhow. That's my impression
anyways.
> --- In [email protected],
"benjaminccollins"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
>
>
> > In the south of India (Tamil Nadu for example) they laugh
about
all
> > those dropped letters as a "northern thing"...which
by the way,
is an
> > insult.
> >
> >
>
>
> >
> > > POWER of YOG
> > > >
> > > > So, in addition to "jogging" it would be good
>
> > > to do some "yogging"? (Those Hindi "truncated"
> >
> > forms of Sanskrit words make me furious! &%#!&?...)
>
> >
> > > I thought that drop the final 'a' stuff was
MMY bringing the
language
> > > back in tune with Natural Law
or somesuch. Your furiousness
with it
> > > must be
unstressing from the intense purity.
> > >
> > >
Aleksanteri
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