[FairfieldLife] Re: Devata yoga

2009-03-10 Thread cardemaister
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister  wrote:
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> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "emptybill"  wrote:
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> > देवो भूत्वा देव
> > यजेत
> > devo bhuutvaa deva yajeta
> > Having become a deity, one should offer to the deity
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> I think the "second" /deva/ should be in the dative case (eg. to, for)
> thus /devaaya/. Be it as it may, the form /deva/ in 
> that case is in the vocative singular, er, case, I believe,
> which would render the syntax a bit odd, methinks.

Oops! According to CDSL, accusative (here: devam) is more common:

yaj...to consecrate , hallow , offer (with acc. , rarely dat. loc. or %{prati} 
, of the deity or person to whom ; dat. of the person for whom , or the thing 
for which ; and instr. of the means by which the sacrifice is performed ;


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> > Whether Vaidika, Agamika or Bauddha Tantrika is it not the same?
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[FairfieldLife] Re: Devata yoga

2009-03-10 Thread cardemaister
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "emptybill"  wrote:
>
> देवो भूत्वा देव
> यजेत
> devo bhuutvaa deva yajeta
> Having become a deity, one should offer to the deity

I think the "second" /deva/ should be in the dative case (eg. to, for)
thus /devaaya/. Be it as it may, the form /deva/ in 
that case is in the vocative singular, er, case, I believe,
which would render the syntax a bit odd, methinks.


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> Whether Vaidika, Agamika or Bauddha Tantrika is it not the same?
>