--- In [email protected], cardemaister <no_reply@...> wrote: > > > --- In [email protected], cardemaister <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > > > anaadimatparaM brahma > > > > Hmmm...just realized one thing that might or mightn't be > "crucial". > > So, devanaagarii (DN) is a syllabic writing system: as a main > rule, almost all characters form a syllable that consist > of a consonant (k, kh, g, gh, and so on), a conjunct consonant > (st, kl, str, gr, pr, etc.) and a diacritic for the vowel > after [in Roman and pronunciation] the consonant/conjunct consonant). > > One of several peculiarities of DN is that the diacritic for a > *short* 'i' is written *before* the consonant/conjunct consonant. > > So, e.g. in 'anaadi* the last syllable, di, looks to someone not > used to that pecularity like it would read 'id'. > > We have never thought about whether it's a convention, or stuff, > to write whatever follows the 'di' (or any such combination) > without a space between it and the following syllable -- in > the line, or rather part of a line in question, mat (actually > ma-tpa-ram, but that's not important here). > > All that boils down to this: if one writes (in DN) 'anaadimat', it > might or mightn't indicate that one thinks thats a word > in its own right, or whatever, and the "wording" anaadi matparam > is not justified. > > (And we are afraid almost no-one understands what the fak > we are trying to explain...) >
Just read that and realized what a supreme teacher Maharishi was. He could explain extremely abstract stuff so that most people had at least a chance to understand what he was talking about! ;D
