The phonological rules which are applied when combining morphemes to a word, and when combining words to a sentence, are collectively calledsandhi“composition”. Texts are written phonetically, with sandhi applied (except for the so-calledpadapāṭha). Writing system Sanskrit was spoken in an ...
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In the Indian traditions, it is believed that it is only in its oral form that the language becomes fully alive and reveals its true nature , provided it is spoken properly.For Indian thinkers, language was primarily the spoken word or speaking itself (vac); while the written word, as a ...
In Advaitavedānta, Māyā is the illusory power which is responsible for all this manifestation. The word "Avidyā" (Ignorance) is an epithet of it. Māyā has six attributes: (1) Anirvacanīyā (undescribable), (2) Jñānanivartyā (annullable by proper knowledge), (3) Anādi (...
This shifting of the word-accent seems to have contributed to the further reduction of the personal endings, and thus to have caused the formation of a new, or secondary, set of terminations which came to be appropriated for secondary tenses and moods generally. As in Greek poetry, the ...
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aThe old word “milk” came from Sanskrit (梵文), one of the oldest languages known to man. A very old picture of milking animals has been found. It was drawn five thousand years ago. People got their milk from their own animals. But in modem times new inventions made the milk industry...
**From a passage about the lin’ga: "Sex symbolism has long been associated with husbandry and the implements connected with it. The Sanskrit word for plough is LA’N’GULA/LA’N’GALA, denoting both a digging implement and phallus. The female pudenda is similarly associated with ploughing ...
For the time being, it is relevant to note the interpretation of the word śriyai (‘for śrī’). On the one hand, RE37121 [2r1] glosses it as lakṣmīyiṉ aṭi poruṭṭum (‘for the sake of [wor-shipping] Lakṣmī’s foot’), Lakṣmī being Viṣṇu’s...
Renfrew maintains that the linguistic argument for the Kurgan theory is based on only limited evidence for a few enigmatic early Indo-European word forms. He points out that parallel semantic shifts or widespread borrowing can produce similar word forms across different languages without requiring that...