--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> phalgu means "reddish". It's probably referring to the reddish
> powder, a earthly receptor for this stellar force-- "ginger" which
> has a reddish powder made from it's root. Purva phalguni is also
the
> deity Aryaman which is the god of the setting sun, and thus
> "reddish". Uttara Phalguni is "the blind sun" (Bhaga).
>
>
> phalgu
> mf(%{U84} , or %{vI})n. reddish , red TS. ; small , minute ,
feeble ,
> weak , pithless , unsubstantial , insignificant , worthless ,
> unprofitable , useless VS. &c. &c. ; f. Ficus Oppositifolia L. ; a
> red powder usually of the root of wild ginger (coloured with
sappan
> wood and thrown over one another by the Hindu1s at the Holi1
> festival ; cf. %{phalgU7tsava}) W. ; the spring season L. ; (scil.
%
> {vAc}) a falsehood lie L. ; N. of a river flowing Past Gaya1 MBh.
> Hariv. ; du. (in astrol.) N. of a Nakshatra.
>
>
> phAlguna
> mf(%{I4})n. relating to the Nakshatra Phalguni1 S3Br. S3rS. ; born
> under the NÒNakshatra PhÒPhalguni1 Pa1n2. 4-3 , 34 (v.l.) ; m.
(with
> or scil. %{mAsa}) the month during which the full moon stands in
the
> NÒNakshatra PhÒPhalguni1 (February-March) Mn. MBh. ; N. of Arjuna
(= %
> {phalguna}) MBh. Hariv. ; Terminalia Arjuna (= %{nadI-ja}) L. ; (%
> {I}) f. see below ; n. a species of grass used as a substitute for
> the Soma plant (and also called %{arjunAnI}) S3Br. TBr. A1s3vS3r.
> [718,2] ; N. of a place of pilgrimage BhP.
>
>
>
> On Oct 22, 2005, at 8:55 AM, Rory Goff wrote:
>
> > The traditional translation of
> > Phalguni as "red one" does not make a lot of sense to me. I am
tempted
> > to see "Phal-" as "fruit" and "-Guni" as "guna, action"
To be honest, at first I thought something like that, too.
But I'd say that's ruled out by the fact that 'n' in 'phalguni'
is dental whereas in 'guNa' it's cerebral aka retroflex (indicated
in Harvard-Kyoto convention by 'N'). The difference between these is
a bit hard to hear because it's not a so called distinctive feature
in, say, English.
>
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