Sanskrit word for "Computer"

[Robert Zydenbos]

Elliot M. Stern schreef:

> The website http://spokensanskrit.de offers several translations.
>
> ga.nakayantram
> sa.mga.nakayantram
> sa.mga.natram
>
> [...]
>
> sa.mga.naka is cited as one of several Hindi terms for computer at 
> http://www.cfilt.iitb.ac.in/~hdict/webinterface_user/dict_search_user.php. 
>

My experience with such Neo-Sanskrit neologisms is that the panditas 
will use whatever Neo-Sanskrit is in use in the modern language of their 
part of the subcontinent. This means that "the" contemporary Sanskrit 
designation for 'computer' does not exist.

E.g., in Kannada, the word of 'computer' is simply ga.naka (exactly 
corresponding to English 'computer' and German 'Rechner'). Cf. 
http://www.kagapa.org in Bangalore, the website of the state-supported 
Kannada Ganaka Parishattu, the makers of which have created several 
Neo-Sanskritisms for concepts in information technology. Sanskrit 
panditas in Karnataka simply use those words.

-- 
Prof. Dr. Robert J. Zydenbos
Department fuer Asienstudien - Institut fuer Indologie
Universitaet Muenchen
Deutschland
Tel. (+49-89-) 2180-5782
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-- 
Prof. Dr. Robert J. Zydenbos
Department fuer Asienstudien - Institut fuer Indologie
Universitaet Muenchen
Deutschland
Tel. (+49-89-) 2180-5782
Fax  (+49-89-) 2180-5827
http://www.lrz-muenchen.de/~zydenbos