--- In [email protected], "Robert Gimbel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > (snip) > > > "Veda" also has a broader definition and that definition is simply > > "knowledge" (it's actually derived from the root "vid", > knowledge),
Just a minor correction: Sanskrit roots are verbal roots, and they are "untranslatable", so to speak. Michael Coulson uses English forms 'bear, bearing, borne, burden' as basis for an analogy: the common element of those words is 'b-r'. That's analogous to Sanskrit verbal roots. Sez Coulson: "The verbal roots are not words in their own right but convenient grammatical fictions."
