[INDOLOGY] Milk ocean

[Dean Michael Anderson]

Using Harvard Kyoto transliteration:  kSIra can mean milk, milky sap, water or a milk dish. The Hindi word KhIr for rice pudding comes from this word.

Best,

Dean




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 From: Howard Resnick <hr at ivs.edu>
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I believe khir is Skt kshira (I haven't figured out how to do diacriticals on Indology yet).

Other examples of Bengali simplifying Sanskrit consonant clusters, specifically ksh to kh:

Parikshit -- Parikhit

Kshetra -- Khetra

Bengali also sometimes simplifies Skt consonant clusters by adding a vowel:  bhakta -- bhakata

Best,
Howard


On Jun 22, 2013, at 4:26 PM, Jo <ugg-5 at spro.net> wrote:

Dear Howard Resnik,
> 
>Please don't mind my question, but I wonder if the Urdu/Hindi term—khir-- for sweet rice milk "pudding", what the Bangalis prefer to call payesh,  descends from ksir(oda, --adhi, etc). The Urdu term pronunciation, khir, would be the way the Sanskrit would be pronounced in Bangla………yes?
>Or am I off base?
> 
>Joanna Kirkpatrick
> 
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> 
>I would appreciate help with the following:
> 
>The Puranas describe Sveta-dvipa, "White Island", an abode of Vishnu lying within the Milk Ocean (ksiroda, ksiradhi, ksira-sagara).
> 
>Tri-kuta mountain is also said to be surrounded by the Milk Ocean.
> 
>Is there any Puranic description of the location of Sveta-dvipa in relation to Tri-kuta?
> 
>Thanks!
>Howard Resnick
> 
> 
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