--- In [email protected], "Richard J. Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Phat!: (pronounced 'fot') phoneme; Buddhist Hybrid-Sanskrit; > > > causative verb? 1. Crack! 2. Snap! 3. Pop! 4. Meaningless > > > sound. 5. Gibberish. 6. Bija mantra - sometimes referred > > > to as the weapon mantra also, in that, it destroys obstacles. > > > 7. Sound of a two-stroked motor vehicle seen all over Delhi. > > > > Vaj wrote: > > It's an aspirated "P" silly Willy. :-) > > > That's what I said, silly Vaj, 'fot'; but you neglected to > mention the left-handed finger snap, which is the essense of > the astral weapon mantra 'phat'. What's up with that?
ROTFLMAO! > > Mahnirvana Tantra, 5.90, 92: > http://tinyurl.com/36slch > > 1 phaT ind. (onom.) crack! VS. AV. TA1r. (also a mystical > syllable used in incantation). > 2 phat ind. , an interjection (in %{phat-kR} , prob. w.r. > for %{phuT-kR}). > 3 phAT ind. an interjection of calling W. > > Cologne Digital Sanskrit Lexicon: > http://webapps.uni-koeln.de/cgi-bin/tamil/recherche > > Salutation to the Wine Devi: Vaushat: > http://www.sacred-texts.com/tantra/maha/maha05.htm > > Phat is the astral or weapon mantra: > http://www.sacred-texts.com/tantra/htg/htg11.htm#fn_331 >
