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....
Jyotish- The word in Sanskrit for Astrology and its study, both astronomical and astrological, because from the standpoint of Veda they are the same. The root “jyoti” means “light” or “brightness”. “ish” means God, the Divine. (Like how Ishvara is the word for God in the Yoga ...
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Meaning of the Sanskrit Word: priti priti—love Madhya 2.87, Madhya 4.95, Madhya 11.27, Madhya 15.154, Madhya 18.194, Madhya 19.194, Madhya 25.207 priti—affection SB 1.11.4-5, Adi 14.64, Madhya 2.47, Madhya 17.203, Madhya 25.124, Antya 3.15 priti—satisfaction SB 1.19.35, Adi 13.116 ...
Word of the Day Help For webmasters: Free content Linking Lookup box Close Sanskrit literature (redirected from Sanskrit poet)Also found in: Dictionary, Thesaurus. Sanskrit literature, literary works written in Sanskrit constituting the main body of the classical literature of India. Introduction...
aNamed after the Sanskrit word for peace, aman, and the Tagalog word for island, Amanpulo is a serene retreat offering the pure white sands, turquoise seas and endless blue skies for which the Philippine archipelago is famed. The entire island of Pamalican is dedicated to Amanpulo, fringed ...
“paradox” that the first evidence of written Sanskrit occurs centuries later than that of the Prakrit languages which are its linguistic descendants.When Sanskrit was written down, it was first used for texts of an administrative, literary or scientific nature. The sacred texts were preserved ...
guna-sanga-varjitah—completely freed from the contamination of the modes of nature.SB 8.8.21 hena-sanga—such associationMadhya 7.47 kaila sanga-bhanga—He has broken My association.Antya 11.94 krsna-bhakta-sanga—for associating with the devotees of Lord KrsnaMadhya 8.251 ...
taihun. The non-original nature of the palatals betrays itself even in Sanskrit by their inability to occur at the end of a word - e.g. ace. vacam =Lat. vocem, but nom. vak = vox - and by otherwise frequently reverting to the guttural state. The linguals differ in pronunciation ...
This will be given more fully in a later lesson 11.A.3, but for the time being accept that this change occurs after `r' or `s.' in the same word, thus a svena but vr.ks.en. a. 34 A Practical Sanskrit Introductory 4.B.3 Exercises a Practise sounding the alphabetical ...