F.R. David - Words don't come easy - High Quality Official Music Video

Usage of the word एवम्(evam).



The word एवम्(evam) has many shades of expressions.

Let's take a simple conversation here that shows the different meanings of just one word.



Person 1 : कुत्र गच्छति? (where are you going?)

Person 2 : अहम्? ( me? )

Person 1 : आम् आम्, एवम् (yes, yes, it is)

Person 2 : एवम्? (really)

Person 1 :हे! किम् अभवत्? सम्यक्?(hey! what happened? everything OK?)

Person 2  : एवम् (it is fine)

Person 1 : एवम्? (really)

Person 2 : आम् एवम्.(yes, it is so)



So who says "words don't come easy to me?" 

Circle of Life/Nants' Ingonyama(Music Video) - From The Lion King

Lion King and The Game of Thrones!
The  word for the day is सिंहासनम् (siMhAsanam).
सिंहासनम् means Throne.
Why is a throne called सिंहासनम् ?

Well let's breakdown the word:

 सिंहासनम् means सिंह (siMha)(Lion) + आसनम्(Asanam)(seat) which means the Seat of a Lion.

A King is considered a Lion among men hence his throne is called the Seat of a Lion.

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Let's get a little bit poetic today!

हरति इति हरिः  (harati iti hariH)  He who takes away is Hari.

हरति इति हरः (harati iti haraH) He who takes away is Hara.

Technically there is no difference between the word Hari and Hara.
Hari(Vishnu) and Hara(Shiva).

Now, so what do Vishnu and Shiva take away from us?
Well, this is up to us to decide how we want to fill in the blanks.

Hari and Hara can take away our ignorance and sins.
Hari and Hara can also take our heart and mind away in a captivating manner ever so beautifully.

So you can sing..."Hari and Hara, You Took My Heart Away"

Today let's take a look at the ancestor of almost all scripts of the Indian languages be it North Indian or South Indian.
The Brahmi script is the ancestor of almost all written scripts in India including the Devanagari script.
In Devanagari we write the word Boy as बालकः(bAlakaH) and the pic attached above is how its written in Brahmi.

Any guess what is written in the above image?
Well its the word बालकः(bAlakAH) meaning  a boy in Sanskrit.

The script used in the image is called Grantham Lipi and it was also used to write Sanskrit in the past and is older than the current Devanagari script and many Agama Shastra texts were written in Grantham script.

Its an interesting script though not much in use these days but worth knowing to increase one's knowledge of ancient scripts.

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What is the meaning of the word Agama (आगम)?
Fellow Malaysians! We are so used to this word to denote Religion.
Now let's take a look of the actual meaning of the word Agama.
There is shloka that gives the definition of the word Agama.


आगतं शिव वक्त्रेभ्यः गतं च गिरिजा  मुखे |
मतं च शिव भक्तानां आगमं चेति कथ्यते ||


AgataM shiva vaktrebhyaH gataM ca girijA

mukhe
mataM ca shiva bhaktAnAM AgamaM ceti kathyate

Translation:
The Agama originated from the faces of Shiva and fell on the countenance of Girija(Parvati) and spread in the world as the mata(religion/school of thought) of the Shiva bhaktas.

The word Agama is made up from the the 1st syllable of the following words:
A आ  from आगतम्( Agatam) 
ga ग  fromगतम्  (gatam)
ma गतम्  from मतम् (matam) 

meaning of आगतम्( Agatam) = originated from/to come from
meaning of गतम्  (gatam) =went to, in the above shloka it means it fell on
meaning of मतम् (matam) = school of thought/religion

Let's take a look at what the Buddhanusmriti has to say about the alphabet अ