Another (!) Subhashita search (the trouble with ali)

Sergei Schmalz schms060 at MAIL.UNI-MAINZ.DE
Tue Nov 23 12:17:10 UTC 1999


> The trouble with ali as "bee" is, in what way does a
> bee characterize a type of sevakAdhama?

        That can be easily answered, if You look up the word in MW dictionary. It's
not just a common bee, rather a large black bee with a sting (there are
quite a lot of these in India, I saw myself many in Mayapur). Hence, it's an
sevakAdhama, because it tends to sting us. :(

With best wishes,
Sergei Schmalz.





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