[INDOLOGY] Translation of bhagavān / bhagavatī

[Dr. Dominik A. Haas, BA MA]

Dear native speakers,

to me “blessed” implies that someone has pronounced a blessing on a 
person/object. How does this work with a deity such as Kṛṣṇa? Or can 
“blessed” be used in a more figurative sense (is this what you have in 
mind?)?

Best regards,

D. Haas



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Am 30.09.2022 um 01:41 schrieb Harry Spier via INDOLOGY:
> Tracy Coleman wrote:
> Bhagavān Śrī Kṛṣṇa, the Blessed Lord Krishna
>
> Thank you Tracy for this. *"Blessed" *is exactly what I need. And of 
> course thank you to everyone else who answered, Rajam, Donald Davis, 
> Dean Michael Anderson, and Matthew Kapstein.
>
> "Blessed" is a little more concise than this definition of bhagavat in 
> the Vishnu Purana translated by Sw. Tyagīśānanda
> "That which is imperceptible, undecaying, inconceivable, unborn,
> inexhaustible, indestructible; which has neither form, nor hands, nor
> feet, which is almighty, omnipresent, eternal; the cause of all things
> and without cause, permeating all, itself unpenetrated, and from which
> all things proceed, that is the object which the wise behold, that is
> Brahman, that is the Supreme State, that is the thing spoken of by the
> Vedas, the infinitely subtle, supreme condition of viSNu. That Essence
> of the Supreme is defined by the term Bhagavat;  the word Bhagavat is
> the denotation of that primeval and eternal God; and he who fully
> understands the meaning of that expression is possessed of holy wisdom,
> the sum and substance of the three vedas. The word Bhagavat is a
> convenient form to be used in the adoration of that Supreme Being, to
> twhom no term is applicable; and therefore bhagavat expresses that
> Supreme Spirit which is individual, almighty, and the cause of causes of
> all things. . . .
>
> Harry Spier
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