On Thursday, May 24, 2007 12:58, Dr. Core wrote: > BTW, is the word Mirisha Sanskrit or pseudo-Sanskrit? The Japanese > (kanji) and Chinese versions of Mirisha and Buddo are both strongly > suggestive of Buddhism, another characteristics of the ROTK legends > (but not history, I don't think Liu Bei was known to be a Buddhist).
For what it may be worth, I'm not familiar of a Sanskrit word "Mirisha" but I know of the following. Marichi (Sanskrit Marici) A ray of light; in the Puranas and the Laws of Manu, the chief of the maruts, one of the seven mind-born sons of Brahma, as well as one of the seven sages (saptarshi), father of Kasyapa and of Surya (the sun). Chinese Buddhists and Taoists "have made of this conception the Queen of Heaven, the goddess of light, ruler of the sun and moon" (Theosophical Glossary by H. P. Blavatsky, p.207). In Japanese mythology Marishi-ten is known as the goddess of heaven, goddess of light, being a Solar deity. Also known as Marisha-Ten (another Japanese name) and Molichitian (Chinese). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marishi-Ten Marisha (Sanskrit Marisa) Daughter of the sage Kandu and the celestial nymph Pramlocha, who gave birth to Marisha by means of the collected perspiration issuing from her pores. Soma matured this by his rays, and gradually it increased in size till the exhalation that had rested on the tree tops become the lovely girl (Vishnu Purana 1:15). She represents the second root-race or sweat-born. With Prachetasas, the production of the mind-born sons of Brahma, Marisha gives birth to the patriarch Daksha, the father of the first humanlike progenitors of the third root-race, the egg-born. -Z- -------------------------------------------------- The Gundam Mailing List MK-II [email protected] Archives: http://www.gundam.com/gml Help: Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with this in the BODY: help list
