Thursday, 7 July 2016

Confessions ... of a rare kind.

Wrote this on my face-book wall,
on 07-07-2015. :
Confessions / संपश्यन्
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When you are all alone, not even with your thoughts, because they are the product of your brain / memory, not even with an explanation about what you are, and the world and its trivialities are left far away irretrievably, you indeed connect with what you really are, though you can never describe this perception of your Real being...
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Tuesday, 7 June 2016

Very true!

बेहद ईमानदारी से! 
हिन्दुत्व (या हिन्दू) शब्द कभी मेरे शब्दकोश में नहीं था, इसलिए जब किसी के मुँह से इसे सुनता या कहीं इसे पढ़ता हूँ तो बस पलकें झपकाता रहता हूँ !
Very honestly indeed!
This word 'Hindutva' / 'Hindu' was never there in my dictionary, 
So whenever I read / hear it I just don't know what to say ...!
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संस्कृत / French / Spanish

संस्कृत / French / Spanish
Cognates.
French : Monsieur - Sanskrit / संस्कृत : मान्यश्री,
French : Mademoiselle - Sanskrit / संस्कृत : मातेमहिला,
French / Spanish Senor (pronunciation - Señor) Sanskrit / संस्कृत : संयुवा 
French / Spanish Senorita (pronynciation - Señorita) 
Sanskrit / संस्कृत : संयोषिता 
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Saturday, 4 June 2016

Persian / Pahlavi

Iran 
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कोण > कोणीय, > koṇa > koṇīya,
प्र-मा > प्रमाण, > pra-mā > pramāṇa,
Cuneiform > the script,  
कुन्तलः > kuntalaḥ > lock of hair,
कुन्तलः > kuntalaḥ > a spear, the people wielding spears 
परशु > paraśu > and फरसा > pharasā > an ax-like weapon 
Farasi / Persian ? Fasci > The Italian Political party of Mussolini, who had a symbol of hay-stock with such an ax.   
कुन्ती / पृथा > kuntī / pṛthā > the queen of King पाण्डु > pāṇḍu > of Mahabharata. 
पृथ्वी > पृथु > पार्थ > पार्थिव > पृथुल् > पृथुल्वीय
पह्लवी / पहलवी > pṛthvī > pṛthu > pārtha > pārthiva > pṛthul > pṛthulvīya
pahlavī / pahalavī > in the earlier times was written from left to right like Aramaic but due to Arabic invasion adopted the right to left writing style. 
सौराष्ट्र > saurāṣṭra > Zoroastrian 
शासनीय > Sassanian,
śāsanīya > 
शाह रज़ा > śāha razā > शासक राजा,  
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Friday, 20 May 2016

The New Scripture

The New Scripture.
The scriptures say :
The fate of Money / wealth is of three kinds,
Donate,
Consume,
Loss.
There is one more the scriptures fail to mention :
"INVESTMENT"
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आधुनिक शास्त्र :
शास्त्र कहते हैं, 
धन की तीन ही गतियाँ हैं :
दान, भोग, और नाश,
एक और गति है निवेश (इन्वेस्टमेन्ट/ investment)!
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Tuesday, 10 May 2016

संस्कृताङ्लो ... / cognates

संस्कृताङ्लो ...
कुक्कुटो > Cock,
मयूरको > pea-cock,
मुरुगः मुर्ग़ा 
कुकूजिता cuckoo,
कोकिला तथा
उलूको owl, काको caw-crow 
गो cow / goat,
एते सर्वे  व्युत्पन्नाः ॥
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ऊकालोऽच्-ह्रस्वदीर्घप्लुतः ।
उ ऊ ऊऽ इति
(पाणिनी 1/2/27)
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