"samsara" meaning "life"

[Dipak Bhattacharya]

08 02 09\
Since the occurrence is in the modern languqge it may be worth enquiry if the use is late and imported DB

--- On Fri, 6/2/09, Robert Zydenbos <zydenbos at UNI-MUENCHEN.DE> wrote:

From: Robert Zydenbos <zydenbos at UNI-MUENCHEN.DE>
Subject: Re: "samsara" meaning "life"
To: INDOLOGY at liverpool.ac.uk
Date: Friday, 6 February, 2009, 10:54 PM

George Hart schreef:

> In modern Brahmin Tamil, it means wife. 

In modern Kannada, it is the (nuclear) family: spouse and possible children.

RZ

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