Sunday, 16 June 2019

WALK THE MOON - Shut Up and Dance (Official Video)





Today's lesson is simple, it's about fighting in Sanskrit.
Now how do we tell someone "Shut up and go to hell" in Sanskrit?
When we fight with someone and give them orders we are using the Imperative mood in Sanskrit(लोट् लकार)(loT lakAra)

So let's begin.

Shut up and go to hell in Sanskrit is तूष्णीं भव ! नरकं गच्छ! (tUSNIM bhava! narakaM gacCa!)
भव(bhava) and गच्छ(gacCa) are both in the imperative mood 2nd person.
In the sentence above there is an implied pronoun, that is it is understood we are using the pronoun त्वम्(you).

Now,what if we want to ask someone to keep quiet and go to hell but we want to be a bit polite ..we can say this "kindly be silent and go to the nether regions"

For this we would be still using Imperative mood but in 1st person and the implied pronoun is  भवान्/भवती (bhavAn/bhavatI) and it is gender oriented .
भवान् is masculine
भवती is feminine.

"Kindly be silent and go to the nether regions" is translated as :

तूष्णीं भवतु पाताललोकं गच्छतु | tUSNIM bhavatu pAtAlalokaM gacCatu

Done for the day.
Whoever knew fighting in Sanskrit could be so fun!
Last but not least..instead of fighting you can tell someone तूष्णीं भव! मया सह नृत्य! (tUSNIM bhava! mayA saha nRtya!) (Shut up and dance with me!)

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