[INDOLOGY] Translation of bhagavān / bhagavatī

[Harry Spier]

Hi Dominik
One thing that wasnt brought up about the usage of "blessed" in English.
It's spelled the same whether it means "gotten a blessing" or if it means
"holy" but it's pronounced differently based on its meaning. We write "The
blessed Pope blessed me" but we pronounce it (at least in Canada) as "The
blessed Pope blessd me"

Harry Spier
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On Fri, Sep 30, 2022, 02:20 Dr. Dominik A. Haas, BA MA, <dominik at haas.asia>
wrote:

> 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. . . .
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> Harry Spier
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