Mysticism

[Dipak Bhattacharya]

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Secondary class students of Sanskrit are taught two examples
on Pāṇini 1.3.31 spardhāyām āṅaḥ‘ā hve takes the middle ending
when challenge is meant’ : Mallo mallam āhvayate ‘the wrestler
challenges (his rival) wrestler i.e. throws down the gauntlet.’ And chātraś
chātram āhvayati ‘the students calls (another) student’ So spardhā fits
the bill. Another Vedic word is śṛdhyā in yaḥ śardhate nānudadāti śṛdhyām.
Best
DB


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 From: shrinivasa varakhedi <shrivara at GMAIL.COM>
To: INDOLOGY at liverpool.ac.uk 
Sent: Friday, 11 May 2012 7:04 AM
Subject: Re: [INDOLOGY] Mysticism
 
Similarly we have another word which does probably does not find a match in Sanskrit - CHALLENGE!

what could be the sanskrit term for this ? Do we have any word even in other Indian Languages? 

shrivara

On 02-May-2012, at 3:43 PM, Robert Zydenbos wrote:

> In Kannada, the commonly used word in ādhyātmikate (which of course is Sanskrit ādhyātmikatā), but the same word also seems to be used as a supposed equivalent for 'spirituality'. As Dominik already said, it seems we have another example of incommensurability here.
> 
> RZ
> 
> On Apr 29, 2012, at 10:53 PM, Dominik Wujastyk wrote:
> 
>> You might look at Apte's Eng-Skt dict for some ideas.
>>     • http://www.sanskrit-lexicon.uni-koeln.de/scans/AEScan/AEScanjpg/ae0302-myope.jpg
>> But as always with such queries (like last year's 'What's the Sanskrit for "go with the flow"?'), one has first to ask whether there is a Sanskritic concept that might correspond to English "mysticism."   And, most probably, there isn't, quite.  Much interesting work has been done on incommensurability in translation theory.
>> 
>> Dominik
>> 
>> 
>> On 29 April 2012 13:49, Harsha Dehejia <harshadehejia at hotmail.com> wrote:
>> Friends~
>> 
>> What is the best Sanskrit word for mysticism?
>> 
>> Regards.
>> 
>> Harsha
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