I have provided the verse in English to follow along. My thanks to The Hindu temple Of Minnesota for the Sanskrit Text. Word By word Textual Meaning: OmBhurBhuvaḥSuvahaTat-saviturVareñyaṃBhargoDevasyaDheemahiDhiyoYonaḥPrachodayÄtGeneralmeaning:Wemeditate on that ...
Bombay in Hindi is Bambai, (an anomalous spelling in terms of Sanskrit, since Hindi is missing a vowel that Sanskrit would pronounce -- we might expect , , , etc.). This is phonetically not much different from the name in English. Instead, the Indian State of Mahārāṣṭra, where...