> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Richard J. Williams" 
> <willytex@> wrote:
> >
> > 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.

LÅL!







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