Req: "dirty" words in Sanskrit
F. Smith
fsmith at blue.weeg.uiowa.edu
Mon Nov 4 03:44:39 UTC 1996
Ye olde Victorian prude, Monier-Williams himself, lists maat.rgaamin,
"going to a mother, one who has committed incest with his mother," citing
an unnamed Paa~ncaraatra text. Now this might not have meant what it
does, say, on the streets of Philadelphia (or even Iowa), and maybe it
was even clinical or purely descriptive. So it might not have been a
dirty word then, though it's awfully tempting.
Fred Smith
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