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You can reach the person managing the list at [EMAIL PROTECTED] When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of sanskrit digest..." Today's Topics: 1. agastya (peekayar) 2. Re: agastya (Sai) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 03:09:58 -0700 (PDT) From: peekayar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [Sanskrit] agastya To: sanskrit digest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" According to mythology asgastya climbed Vindhya and put his foot on top of it and ordered it not to grow till his retrun from the South. I had a doubt that agastya got this name from this act. I have consulted a grammarian who has given the derivation of agastya as agam (mountain) styaayati (stays) iti agastyah. Incidentally the English stay seems to have originated from the Sanskrit styaa. Comments are welcome. PKRamakrishnan --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail is new and improved - Check it out! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.cs.utah.edu/mailman/private/sanskrit/attachments/20040810/7f2eee97/attachment-0001.htm ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 10:47:52 -0600 From: Sai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [Sanskrit] agastya To: peekayar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: sanskrit digest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Let us try using the verb 'styA' in sentences: himasya Saityena stIyate vapuH ? <E> styai <M> cl. 1. P. %{styAyati} , to be collected into a heap or mass Dha1tup. xxii , 14 ; to spread about ib. ; to sound ib. ; cl. 1. A1. %{styAyate} (pr. p. %{styAna} q.v. ; ind. p. %{-styAya} ; see %{ni-STyai}) , to stiffen , grow dense , increase Uttarar. Mcar. <E> styAna <M> mfn. grown dense , coagulated Sus3r. Sa1h. ; stiffened , become rigid Car. ; soft , bland , unctuous , smooth (= %{snigdha}) L. ; thick , bulky , gross W. ; sounding MW. ; n. (only L.) density , thickness , grossness , massiveness ; unctuousness ; nectar ; idleness , sloth , apathy ; echo , sound. <E> styAya <M> see %{saM-styAya}. <E> styAyana <M> n. collecting into a mass , aggregation , crowding together Nir. - sai. peekayar uvaacha: > According to mythology asgastya climbed Vindhya and put his foot on top of it and > ordered it not to grow > till his retrun from the South. I had a doubt that agastya got this name from this > act. > > I have consulted a grammarian who has given the derivation of agastya as > > agam (mountain) styaayati (stays) iti agastyah. > > Incidentally the English stay seems to have originated from the Sanskrit styaa. > > Comments are welcome. > > PKRamakrishnan > > > > --------------------------------- > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail is new and improved - Check it out! > _______________________________________________ > sanskrit mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mailman.cs.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/sanskrit ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ sanskrit mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.cs.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/sanskrit End of sanskrit Digest, Vol 17, Issue 5 ***************************************