Sanskrit Spelling

[Venkatraman Iyer]

>"Middle Indians" from Gujarat  and Mahrastra to Orissa and Andhra rather
>pray to Krushna (and occasionally spell his name that way, kruSNa) while
>Dilli/UP-wallas prefer Krishna (kriSNa) or even later
>forms.

Indologists,

Interestingly, Tamil also uses kirushNan/kiruTTiNan for kRSNa.
Is kRSNa = black, an Indo-Aryan word? Or, does it have a relation
to tamil karu/karuppu/karumai = black?

Sincerely,
V. Iyer



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