is typically the Lord, the Blessed One, or
something similar.
Bhagavatī, as in Bhagavatī Prajñāpāramitā, is usually Blessed or Glorious.
Matthew
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Yes, bhagavan/bhagavati are used to refer to the deity. So in your quote, you
could translate it as "goddess", "divinity", "deity" or something similar.
But bhagavan is also used to refer to an honored person. I've never seen
bhagavati used in that way, but I don't see why not. I would imagine
How do we know the original was not written in Sanskrit long ago and only
later translated into Spanish? ;-)
Best,
Dean
On Wednesday, July 6, 2022 at 01:19:30 PM GMT+5:30, Richard Mahoney via
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Not something I expected to find in the paper this evening, esp. after all
Congratulations, Joanna. I look forward to reading it.
Best,
Dean
On Wednesday, June 15, 2022 at 02:12:38 AM GMT+5:30, Joanna Jurewicz
wrote:
Dear All,
I am happy to announce that my last book "Invisible Fire. Memory, Tradition and
the Self in Early Hindu Philosophy" (2021) is
steppe clan based
family in a segmentation society should in any way have a similar concept of
family and paternity as the fixed field agrarian Greek or Roman one. Sorry is
not more helpful.
Best, Caley
On Mon, May 30, 2022, 2:27 PM Dean Michael Anderson via INDOLOGY
wrote:
Thanks Hans Henri
t of
family and paternity as the fixed field agrarian Greek or Roman one. Sorry is
not more helpful.
Best, Caley
On Mon, May 30, 2022, 2:27 PM Dean Michael Anderson via INDOLOGY
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Thanks Hans Henrich,
I was aware that he was not widely mentioned in RV but I hadn't thought of the
ram
n Greek or Roman one. Sorry is
not more helpful.
Best, Caley
On Mon, May 30, 2022, 2:27 PM Dean Michael Anderson via INDOLOGY
wrote:
Thanks Hans Henrich,
I was aware that he was not widely mentioned in RV but I hadn't thought of the
ramifications of that until your post.
I realize this may be th
, and in Vedic Prose, Viṣṇu, as
personification of the sacrifice, becomes more important (as well as Rudra),
and of course Prajāpati, the ‘lord of creatures’.
I hope this at least partly answers your query.
All the best,
Hans Henrich
On 30 May2022, at 08:43, Dean Michael Anderson via INDOLOGY
Dear Indology List,
Can anyone point me to any studies that discuss what happened to the Vedic
Dyaus Pater who was important in the Rig Veda but who seems to have been
supplanted in later times?
It's particularly interesting for Indo-European studies because Dyaus is
related to the Greek Zeus
ave Like a Bull," the
paper argues that the emulation (and I personally would say *impersonation*) of
Indra as an unruly bull was an ancient Vedic practice, elements of which
survive in the Pāśupatasūtras. I am happy to send a pdf of this excellent paper.
Best,Caley
On Fri, May 13, 2022 at 12:11 PM D
I was watching a video about berserkers inspired by the new movie The Northman
and they mentioned that not only were there Viking bear warriors but there were
also wolf warriors as shown in the movie. The video said that these wolf
warriors are widely found among many of the early
In looking more closely at the lettering based on the comments here, I'd say
it almost certainly seems to be showing ātmatattvam.
The word is found in Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 5.5.5 and according to this site, also
in the Upanishads:
http://sanskrit.segal.net.br/en/mw?id=23512#23512which translates
What is the background of ātmatattvam?
Btw, the yantra is a common one. Among other uses, it appears to be the one
associated with Lakshmi. Others who are more informed may recognize other
meanings associated with it.
The basic form, that of the intersection an upward-pointing triangle (male
The review, at least, is available on JSTOR.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/26546272
The book is harder to get in these times; impossible for some of us.
Dean
On Friday, March 18, 2022, 02:32:31 PM GMT+5:30, Jonathan Silk via INDOLOGY
wrote:
on this one must certainly also see the
Thanks!
Dean
On Friday, February 25, 2022, 02:37:59 PM GMT+5:30, Christophe Vielle via
INDOLOGY wrote:
Here
De : Oliver Hellwig
Envoyé : vendredi 25 février 2022 09:26
À : Christophe Vielle
Objet : Re: [INDOLOGY] Bühler's ApDhS Thanks a lot, Christophe! Highly
appreciated.
Best
What is the link to the DLI site, please?
Best,
Dean
On Friday, February 25, 2022, 01:57:33 PM GMT+5:30, Oliver Hellwig via
INDOLOGY wrote:
Thanks to Christophe Vielle who pointed me to the DLI site.
Best, Oliver
On 25/02/2022 06:48, Oliver Hellwig wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I'm looking
may find the attached papers of mine, which also have more recent
references, to be of some interest.
All best wishes,
Hans Henrich
On 6 Feb2022, at 07:57, Dean Michael Anderson via INDOLOGY
wrote:
Thanks to everyone for replying. Yes, Burrow sounds right.
Madhav, could you point me to your
Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore, India
[Residence: Campbell, California, USA]
On Sun, Feb 6, 2022 at 4:26 AM Dean Michael Anderson via INDOLOGY
wrote:
I had read somewhere that there are two dialects of Sanskrit that tend to use
either the 'r' sound or the 'l' sound and that t
I had read somewhere that there are two dialects of Sanskrit that tend to use
either the 'r' sound or the 'l' sound and that they appear to be geographically
separated.
I've forgotten who pointed this out although my faulty memory is suggesting
Emeneau.
Can anyone provide me with more
Thanks for posting this. I'd be interested if anything more develops in this
area.
Best,
Dean
On Tuesday, January 4, 2022, 01:53:03 PM GMT+5:30, Alex Watson via INDOLOGY
wrote:
On this topic, I'm forwarding a mass email that was sent 10 days ago to a
number of faculty members in
, or is that what you are
asking?
On Sun, Dec 26, 2021 at 3:39 AM Dean Michael Anderson via INDOLOGY
wrote:
Yes, I was trying to find the source of that quote.
The sentence is contained in: Payam Nabarz (2005), The Mysteries of Mithras:
The Pagan Belief That Shaped the Christian World. Simon
to discourage.
Best,Arash
On Sat, 25 Dec 2021, 11:04 Dean Michael Anderson via INDOLOGY,
wrote:
Sorry for once again spilling over the South Asian borders but I can't seem to
find a reliable reference for this claim:
"Zoroaster is said to have had a miraculous birth: his mother, Dug
://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/dugdow
Dan
On Dec 25, 2021, at 6:02 AM, Dean Michael Anderson via INDOLOGY
wrote:
Dughdova
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Sorry for once again spilling over the South Asian borders but I can't seem to
find a reliable reference for this claim:
"Zoroaster is said to have had a miraculous birth: his mother, Dughdova, was a
virgin who conceived him after being visited by a shaft of light.
Perhaps some of our
Yes, I also knew S.R. Rao and I agree that he was a Hindu traditionalist. But
I don't think I'd call him a Hindutvavadin since, if I remember correctly, and
I may misremember, he was strongly against the right-wing politicization of
archaeology.
The same was certainly true of a similar
Speaking of "the oceanic littoral" mentioned here, can anyone point me to
*reliable* sources that discuss the submerged ruins off the coast of India and
their ramifications? I've heard there are some off of Dwaraka and others down
south near Chennai.
Discussions of Lemuria and Atlantis are
I've been working on the Indo-Europeans and some of their interactions.
It started with the discovery that Vikings penetrated into Central Asia. Their
hoards in Scandinavia contain silver coins from Afghanistan. While they might
not have gone all the way there, it seems certain that they did
I seem to remember reading somewhere that the current organization of the
Brahma Sutras into Chapters, Sections, and Adhikarana was a later development.
If so, could someone please point me to more information about this process and
how it might have been originally organized?
Best,
Dean
Thanks for all of the very helpful responses. It opened my eyes to an entirely
new universe of cultural influences that I was unaware of.
Best,
Dean
On Thursday, November 18, 2021, 09:45:02 AM GMT+5:30, Arlo Griffiths via
INDOLOGY wrote:
Thanks to Dean for raising this topic, and to
A few decades ago I was in the Philippines and a professor there told me that
the native Filipino languages had some words that originated with Sanskrit. He
was not interested in Indology really, and this was long before Hindutva, so I
don't think it's due to exaggerated cultural nationalism. I
Can anyone provide references to the earliest mentions -- even glancing -- of
the origins of Soma -- in particular, to its origin from the churning of the
oceans by the devas and asuras?
Later references or surveys would also be appreciated.
Best,
Dean
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Can anyone recommend an Indo-European discussion list?
Best,
Dean
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Dean
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Can anyone point me to discussions about early mythological Hindu theorizing
about the origins of state-level society and kingship?
Thanks,
Dean
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Were these the ones founded by the church to facilitate conversion to
Christianity, as so many of those early positions were?
Best,
Dean
On Sunday, June 27, 2021, 2:56:15 PM GMT+5:30, Eli Franco
wrote:
Yes, the two chairs, for Sanskrit and Chinese, were created at the same time.
Dear Jan,
Thank you for this informative post. One question. You wrote that French was:
"the language which was the first occidental language of the scientific study
of Sanskrit"
Could you please give me more information on this? I was recently briefly
covering the history of Sanskrit in the
Congratulations indeed! I join Dominik in thanking you for making it easily
available as well.
Best,
Dean
On Wednesday, June 23, 2021, 8:14:53 PM GMT+5:30, Dominik Wujastyk via
INDOLOGY wrote:
Congratulations! And thank you for the invisible negotiations that have made
free sharing
Great news! Congratulations!
Dean
On Saturday, June 19, 2021, 12:06:00 AM GMT+5:30, Donald R Davis via
INDOLOGY wrote:
Dear Colleagues,
I am pleased to inform you about a new repository of searchable electronic
texts of Dharmaśāstra commentaries and digests, hosted at the University
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