--- In [email protected], "Mr. Magoo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > From Yogananda's Gita: > > (Kuru, from the Sanskrit root kri="work, material action" and ksetra= > "field"). This "field of action" is the human body with its physical, > mental and soul faculties, the field (kurukshetra) on which all > activities of one's life take place. Gita/Yogananda's >
That's interesting. Yeah, "kuru" certainly is a form from the root "kR", but like "bhava", it's the second person imperative singular form of that verb, as in: yogasthaH kuru karmaaNi IMO, interpreting "kuru" in "kurukSetra" to mean simply "action" sounds a bit, well, folk etymological! The appropriate noun would "of course" be "karma(n)": karmakSetra. But I've learned that as to Sanskrit, one can seldom know for sure! :) > From Maharishi's Gita: > > "The field of the Kuru's, is a vast plain near Histinapur in the > neighbourhood of Delhi. As it belonged to the Kurus at the time of > this battle it is called Kurukshetra." Gita/MMY > > You be the judge....... >
