On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 8:21 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian <[email protected]>wrote:
A "guru dakshina" - the only appropriate use actually - was what you paid > your guru as a fee for your becoming "daksha" or "expert" > > Ah. Thank you. Then there is no connection between this word and "dakshina" meaning "south"? I find that so often, in Indian mythology, what I thought was a name is actually only a "job description"...Indra...Vishwakarma....and now, Daksha (which, I thought until now, was the name of Parvati's father, and whose yagyna Shiva came and destroyed.) Fascinating! Sorry for the rather FB-like responses. But this does seem like a conversation, with quick answers.
