Category: Understanding the world
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formal forms of Japanese has it’s base in sanskrit
“tamaso ma jotir gamaya” is a sanskrit phrase I ofetn recited. I learned this in high school. It literally means from tama towards jyoti, let my progress be. tama is used to mean darkness. Notice that the gamaya or gamaja which means movement therfore progress, can also be written as gamas. The ga is the only word that means this movement. It is also…
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The meaning of BanGa (bengal, bangla)
Etymology analysis of names of cities from ancient social thinking
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Hell and heaven
He had an argument with me. He said “from where I come from blah blah blah..yada yada”
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Why Bishnu has 10 incarnations? Shiba and Brahma don’t?
Why Vishnu has avatars but Shiva and Brahma do not. Of the Hindu trinity, Bishnu (Vishnu) did not originally have a body. Perhaps for that reason, he was the most prime God of the Pantheon and Shiva and Brahma were merely later day additions. Plus since he did not have a body he was allowed…