Word History:Like Latin in Europe and elsewhere, Sanskrit has been used by the educated classes in India for literary and religious purposes for over two thousand years. It achieved this status partly through a standardization that resulted from a long tradition of grammatical theory and analysis....
Sanskrit, as defined by Pāṇini, had evolved out of the earlier “Vedic” form. The beginning of Vedic Sanskrit can be traced as early as 1500–1200 BCE (for Rig-vedic and Indo-Aryan superstrate in Mitanni). Scholars often distinguish Vedic Sanskrit and Classical or “Pāṇinian” San...
Not impossibly, however, this prevalence of pure a-sounds in Sanskrit may from the very beginning have been a mere theoretical or graphic feature of the language, the difference of pronunciation having not yet been pronounced enough for the early grammarians to have felt it necessary to clearly...
The word devanagar means the `city nagar of immortals deva'. There are no capital letters. In Sanskrit, each letter represents one, and only one, sound. In English, the letter `a' for example, may indicate many sounds e.g. fat, fate, fare, far, but not so in ...
‘thought’ stands for what is intended to be conveyed. That intention is instinctive (prathibha) and immediate; and, it does not involve stages such as: analysis, speculation, drawing inferences and so on. At the level ofPashyanti Vak, there is no distinction between word and meaning. And...
Vihaan comes from a Sanskrit word denoting the dawn, but has the symbolic meaning of the beginning of a new age, making Vihaan a wonderful choice for the first baby in a family's next generation. Vihaan Continued Indira Origin: Sanskrit Meaning: "beauty" Description: A striking and femini...
That first "major" section is also known as Śruti or "that sacred knowledge which has been heard and passed from guru on to disciple from the beginning". The word "Śruti" is derived from the root "śru" (to hear), and that is why I marked in bold italic letters the word "...
Pick a word, phrase, or invocation and chant it in a way that works for you: loudly, softly, or even internally. To reap the most benefits, it is believed that shorter mantras should be chanted 108 times (mala beads can help you keep track) and longer mantras can be repeated up to...
Beginning with the first marble gate, all walls, vaulted ceilings, and gates are covered with Buddhist imagery such as the four heavenly kings, the eight bodhisattvas, the 24 buddhas, lions, the Eight Treasures, as well as ritual instruments and more than 30,000 words of Tibetan scripture an...
kalpa-anta—in the beginning of the devastationSB 3.11.31 ksura-anta—and as sharp as a razorSB 7.8.19-22 krta-anta—deathSB 4.22.35 krta-anta-antika-varti—always given the facility for deathSB 8.22.11 lekhara anta—it is beyond the power of writing.Madhya 20.324 ...