Sanskrit Digest Monday, March 18 2002 Volume 01 : Number 256
Re: Sanskrit Digest V1 #255 ["Sunder Hattangadi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>]
subhAShitaM [gItA] ["SHESHADRI,RAGHURAM (HP-India,unix2)" <raghuram_shesh]
'lakArA's : a correction ["SHESHADRI,RAGHURAM (HP-India,unix2)" <raghuram]
Re: Samskrita-granthaalayah-"On-line" [Sai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>]
Help needed [Prasad Menon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>]
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Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 21:00:08
From: "Sunder Hattangadi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Sanskrit Digest V1 #255
Namaste,
It is unclear if the reference is to : shchutva-, ShTutva-, [jashtva-,
chartva-, Chatva-] sandhi. These are all 'vya~njana sandhi'-s
and cover a variety of combinations.
Regards,
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>Sanskrit Digest Thursday, March 14 2002 Volume 01 : Number
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>Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 14:03:51 +0530 (IST)
>From: Ravindra V Joshi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: Sanskrit Digest V1 #253
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>Hi,
> Pl. explain what is meant by sutwa sandhi
>Joshi
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Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 20:05:09 -0800
From: "SHESHADRI,RAGHURAM (HP-India,unix2)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: subhAShitaM [gItA]
namaste,
shlokaM:
vidyAvinaya saMpanne brAhmaNe gavi hastini |
shunI chaiva shwapAkecha pa.NDitAH samadarshinaH ||
anvayaH tathA padavicChedaH:
pa.NDitAH brAhmaNe vidyA vianaya saMpanne gavi |
hastini eva shunI cha shwapAke samadarshinaH ||
pratipadArthaH:
pa.NDitAH = Scholars (plural), here it has to be interpreted as
learned, erudites
brAhmaNe = in Brahmin
vidyA = education
vinaya = humility
saMpanne = abundant in, rich in
gavi = in a cow
hastini = in an elephant
shunI = in a dog
eva = also
shwapAke = in a shwapAka ( shwAnaM pachati iti), one who cooks dog
for his food
(this trbe of people are called 'chAnDAlAs' who use dog
meat as food)
cha = and
samadarshinaH = will treat equally, treat on par.
tAtparyaH:
Erudite scholars treat a well read brahmin full of humility, a cow, an
elephant, a dog, a shwapAka
on par with one another.
Raghu adds:
If we elaborate this meaning, this can be given a magnificent
interpretation.
A person, who is well read and who understands the 'shAstrA's, 'dharma'
etc. will
treat every one equally. To emphasize the level of equality 'maharshi
vedavyAsa', gives
examples of a brahmin, who is revered as 'bhUsura', the gods of the earth,
a cow, revered
by Hindus as holy mother (gomAtA), an elephant which is the biggest
terrestrial mammal, which
is conpicuous by its sheer size, a dog and considering the lowest order of
human beings,
a chAndAla who cooks dog for his food (considered, a deplorable level of
existence). This is the
reverse order of respect one gets in society (perhaps in those days) when
there was a strict social order.
Thus, one has to treat everyone equally and should not discriminate based
on any criterion.
shubhaM bhavatu
- -Raghu
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Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 20:07:10 -0800
From: "SHESHADRI,RAGHURAM (HP-India,unix2)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: 'lakArA's : a correction
From: "A.R. Srikrishnan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sir,
I use to read your postings on gita, which I think
will be of great help to learners of Sanskrit. I would like
to point out a small 'mistake' (if I can call so !) in your
explanation of the lakaara's:
> the 10 tenses are
> lat - present tense
> leT - used mostly in 'vedA's
> lu~N, la~N, liT - past tense
> li~N, loT - while teaching, blessings and bestowals
> lR^i~N, lR^uT, lR^iT - in future tense.
>
> (I may be wrong in some of the spellings; but, the verse
seems to be OK)
The issue is with li~N, loT. Wording in the verse
should be "vidhyaashisho..." and not "vidyaashisho". ie,
the first is "vidhi" (instruction/command) and not "vidya"
as you seem to have interpreted while giving the meaning as
"teaching".
Just a minor thing - but I thought it may be useful
to point out.
- -thanks
Srikrishnan
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Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 23:28:22 -0700
From: Sai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Samskrita-granthaalayah-"On-line"
The link is,
sanskritlibrary.org
- - Sai.
DM uvaacha:
> was there a link in this. The email says, 'click on the link'
>
> thanks...devadas
>
> At 11:02 PM 3/14/02, you wrote:
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Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 08:14:26 -0700
From: Prasad Menon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help needed
Hello
I'am trying to make some sort of a metaphone rule for converting =
Indian names written in english into their pronounciation equivalence.
I already have similar rules for french , german & english.
But with so many languages and dilects in India , is it possible to =
have some sort of a common rule engine for all the languages ?
If anybody could help me out with this i would be more than thankful.
Regards
=09
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