cardemaister wrote:
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>> A little Sanskrit 101 here: deva if masculine so devatas refers to the
>> male deities and if you notice Maharishi only mentions male deities.
>> OTOH, devi is feminine so devitas refers to the female deities and
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> if he
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>> had been asked about the "devitas" he would have only mentioned female
>> deities. So for complete knowledge on the subject one would want to
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>> about both. ;-)
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> Well, seriously, according to A. A. Macdonell, under "Secondary
> nominal suffixes", "tâ: forms abstract f.[feminine -- CM] substantives
> with the sense conveyed by the English suffixes /-ship/ and /-ness/;
> e. g. bandhu-tâ /relationship/, vasu-tâ /wealthiness/;
> deva-tâ /divinity/, puruSa-tâ /human nature/."
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The correction came from my guru. I was discussing "Ishta Devatas" and
he corrected me to say it is "Ishta Devi" and "Ishta Deva". Of course
my point was that MMY took the word "devata" literally and spoke only of
the male deities.
