Left and right
Stella Sandahl
ssandahl at SYMPATICO.CA
Tue Nov 4 21:26:49 UTC 2008
> A friend of mine just asked me the following question:
"historically, how do Indian traditions look at the ideas of left
(or left-hand) and right (right-hand)?"
I have no idea. Does anybody know how the notion of the left hand
being inauspicious etc. came about?
Latin sinistra seems to have the same connotations.
>
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