On 8/16/2014 3:09 AM, cardemais...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote:
*nanda * m. joy , delight , happiness (also pl.) AV. VS. c. ; (in
mus.) a flute 7 inches long ;...
*ananda* mfn. joyless , cheerless ; (%{As}) m. pl.N. of a purgatory
Up. [25,2]
Go figure. It must be something having to do with the Sanskrit masculine A.
Cologne Digital Sanskrit Lexicon:
http://www.sanskrit-lexicon.uni-koeln.de/cgi-bin/tamil/recherche
1 ananda mfn. joyless , cheerless ; (%{As}) m. pl.N. of a
purgatory Up. [25,2]
2 Ananda m. happiness , joy , enjoyment , sensual pleasure RV.
AV. VS. R. Ragh. c. ; m. and (%{am}) n. ` pure happiness ' , one of
the three attributes of A1tman or Brahman in the Veda1nta philosophy
Veda1ntas. c. ; m. (in dram.) the thing wished for , the end of the
drama [e.g. the VIth Act in the Ven2is.] Sa1h. 399 ; a kind of flute ;
the sixteenth Muhu1rta ; N. of S3iva ; of a Lokes3vara (Buddh.) ; of a
Bala (Jain.) L. ; of several men ; of a country ; m. and (%{am}) n. N.
of the forty-eighth year of the cycle of Jupiter ; (%{A} and %{I}) f. N.
of two plants L. ; (%{A}) f. N. of Gauri1 L. ; (%{am}) n. a kind of
house ; (often at the beginning and end of proper names.)
