bob_brigante wrote: > > Doesn't "Bal" mean "boy" - Bal Brahmachari means life celibate, > > or so I understood. > > You are mistaken, Bob - according to the Cologne Digital Sanskrit Lexicon, the Sanskrit term 'bal' is an interjection imitating the sound of a falling body, as in 'falling at the feet of the master'. Many Sanskrit terms are derived from common household sounds. For example, the bija mantra 'phat', heard at every puja, is derived from the crack-sound made by a two-stroked wheeled vehicle, the motor rickshaw, found all over downtown Delhi.
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