--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Marek Reavis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Card, thanks, and I think that's what Zimmer explained, too. In his > essay he wrote something about the devanagari script that in the > transformation of Shava to Shiva the element necessary for that > transformation(representing Mother Divine) preceeded but that no > essential change occurred to the original character(s). The > transcendent remains unchanged (Shava remains as Shava) but not it's > "read" as Shiva, Ishvara, God. > > Cool. >
Yeah, if you have "shiva" written in isolation, and you cover the first character (diacritic for 'i'), after that it reads "shava", because all consonant characters have an inherent(?) short 'a' unless it's eliminated or "replaced" by a diacritic for some other vowel than *short* 'a'.
