Narada

[Jan Brzezinski]

Thanks for your help. Your reply was very useful.

Jan

--- "Robert P. Goldman" <sseas at SOCRATES.BERKELEY.EDU>
wrote:
> The RAmAyaNa commentator GovindarAja in his
> RAmAyaNabhUSaNa on VAlmIki
> RAmAyaNa offers no fewer than three (fanciful or
> otherwise) etymologies for
> the name NArada.
>
> 1. narasya saMbandhi nAram "narAc ceti vaktavyam"
> ityaN. ajJAnam ity
> arthaH. tad dyati khaNDayatIti nAradaH.  do
> avakhaNDane ity asmAd dhAtoH.
> "Adeca upadeze 'ziti" ityAtve sati "Ato 'nupasarge
> kaH" iti kapratyayaH
> ajJAnanivartaka ityarthaH.  ( Go. then quotes a vs.
> from the N�radIya to
> the effect that N. does, in fact, destroy the
> darkness born of ignorance
> for men.)
>
> 2. yad vA nAraM jJAnaM . tad dadAtIti nAradaH.
>
> 3. yad vA narati sadgatiM prApayatIti naraH
> paramAtmA. nR naya ity asmAd
> dhAtoH pacAdyac. ( Go.then quotes  a vs. from the
> BhArata substantiating
> the equation of nara and paramAtman and continues)
> sa eva nAras taM dadAty
> upadizatIti nAradas tam...
>
> So we see that (acc. to Go.) far from rejecting or
> opposing the world,
> NAradamuni is really rather a useful chap to have
> around, destroying
> ignorance, giving knowledge and setting our feet on
> the path of the
> virtuous etc. Clearly V�lm�ki (and his commentator)
> is not interested in
> foregrounding N's reputation as kalahapriyaH.
>
>
>
> >On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, Jan Brzezinski wrote:
> >
> >> Any etymologies, fanciful or otherwise, for
> nArada,
> >> the RSi?
> >
> >I remember that Parbu Bhopo, the Pabuji bard with
> whom I worked in the 70s
> >and 80s, explained the name (with reference to
> Narada's notoriously
> >quarrelsome nature) as meaning "jo duniyAM ko
> *radd* kartA hai" -- he who
> >rejects/opposes the world.
> >
> >John Smith
> >
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