"samsara" meaning "life"

Maheswaran Nair swantam at ASIANETINDIA.COM
Tue Feb 3 14:42:04 UTC 2009


Hello,
The word samsara has the same meaning of world in Malayalam also.But  
the word samsara has also the meaning of conversation, speech in  
Malayalam.
K.Maheswaran Nair
Trivandrum

Quoting Allen W Thrasher <athr at LOC.GOV>:

> In some modern Indian language samsar(a) can mean something like   
> "one's personal world" or "family life."  For instance there are the  
>  novel and movie Apur sansar of Bibhutibhushana Bandhopadhyaya and   
> Satyajit Ray, and the Maharashtra State Family Planning Bureau's   
> magazine Sukhi sansar.  How widespread is this usage, and how far   
> back does it go, I wonder?
>
> Allen
>
>
> Allen W. Thrasher, Ph.D.
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