Dear All, In our discussions of the origins of the Indian alphabet and the phological knowledge it embodies, I wonder if it might be useful to ponder the fact...
Repost from the Iranian Studies List of a conference that looks promising. Steve ************** Discourses of Memory in Iranian Cultures Sponsored by: The...
... Here are some Indo-Greek kings shown with this gesture, http://tinyurl.com/7ag4m In Greece, did this mudra originate from a symbol of speech - Ie., thumb...
[Mod. note. We cut out the long top-post as accustomed, Dean. Best - Steve.] ... This brings up an important question: what is the appropriate methodology for...
Dear Colleagues, The term devanampriya in Asokas Prakrit inscriptions is evidently omitted in his Greek inscriptions, while in his Aramaic inscriptions it is...
Hello Madhav, although I am in no way an expert in Aramaic (or Hebrew), I happen to know what maran means. It means "lord". As in the Biblical "maran ata" =...
... Simple answer: don't go to the press immediately after discovery. They ALWAYS get it wrong, even if you talk to them for hours, giving them some basic...
This is an important issue. In the context of the stem cell research fraud in South Korea, I read a perceptive observation. In this age of ever new versions of...
A slightly tangential and perhaps easy question. How exactly is the date of Ashokan edics ascertained? rajesh ... Prof Rajesh Kochhar Former Director :NISTADS...
Michael writes (on the accelerating stream of nationalistic ... All true, but going a bit deeper: dreadful though the reporting is, one of the problems is that...
Simple answer: don't go to the press immediately after discovery. They ALWAYS get it wrong, even if you talk to them for hours, giving them some basic...
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Victor Mair
vmair@...
Feb 2, 2006 4:15 pm
Dear Madhav, Aramaic MARAN = Hebrew YHWH cf. Aramaic MAR (or MARI or MARAN) for Greek ADON(AI). http://www.hebraicrootsversion.com/hrvsacredname.html This...
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Victor Mair
vmair@...
Feb 2, 2006 4:37 pm
Speaking of memory, there is a new MemoryWiki site agrowing. My friend, Marsall Poe of the Atlantic Monthly, is aggressively recruiting collaborators to serve...
I want to thank everyone who responded so quickly to my question regarding the expression "maran" in Ashoka's Aramaic inscription. Best, Madhav Deshpande...
Madhav, The online Aramaic dictionary at http://www.alphadictionary.com/directory/Languages/Afro,045Asiatic/Aramaic/ gives the following: mr) N > mry mry N...
(My email program scrunched the later part of my last message together, so apologies: I am reposting just the last part, corrected.) So it corresponds to the...
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Hartmut Buescher
buescher@...
Feb 2, 2006 9:01 pm
... Prof. Minoru Hara has -- see his: "A Note on the Sanskrit Phrase devAnAM priya", in: Indian Linguistics, vol. 30 (FS. S. M. Katre, Poona 1969): 13-69. ...
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Bjarte Kaldhol
bjarkal@...
Feb 2, 2006 9:20 pm
I suppose Dan means that the -n of Aramaic maran is the first person plural suffix of the possessive pronoun? That is apparently what the word means, anyhow:...
[Mod. note. Be careful what you wish for, Kat. :^) - Steve.] http://www.grahamhancock.com/forum/BadrinaryanB1.php Would anyone be able to write a short article...
Bjarte, As the admittedly cryptic citation from the online Aramaic dictionary shows, the basic term is MaRA (mem resh alef), which means 'master'. Apologies...
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Victor Mair
vmair@...
Feb 2, 2006 10:10 pm
Dear Madhav and List Members, Pardon me for the misidentification of Hebrew ADON(AI) as Greek. Victor...
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Victor Mair
vmair@...
Feb 3, 2006 12:37 am
Somebody on the List requested information about a Sanskrit-Japanese dictionary. The following is available for 110 pounds from Hanshan Tang Books in London...
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Bjarte Kaldhol
bjarkal@...
Feb 3, 2006 1:31 pm
Dan, Your interpretation of maran as plural ("lords") cannot be correct. As I said, the -n suffix must be the first person plural possessive pronoun -n/-na,...
Thanks, Hartmut -- that's helpful. I was thinking, however, of the wider range of terms that went through comparable changes. Does this article deal with other...
European Scholarship for Jain Studies in India (International Summer School for Jain Studies) The World Council of Jain Academies (WCJA) annually sponsors 5...
Hey folks- Perhaps this gets asked too many times, but I checked my archives and didn't find anything ... I have a friend who wanted to know the best...
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Victor Mair
vmair@...
Feb 3, 2006 8:34 pm
All of the references that I checked interpret the ending of MARAN as Bjarte does. But perhaps I didn't dig deeply enough. Victor...
... complete novice to begin learning Sanskrit and Tibetan. As for Sanskrit: Much depends upon how much time you friend has, and what he knows in advance. In...
Bjarte and Victor, This may be a difference between so-called "western Judaeo-Aramaic" on the one hand and Syriac on the other. For an online resource to...
... [snip] ... Your friend would do well to consult the following: Lehrbuch der klassischen tibetischen Schriftsprache / von Michael Hahn. Hahn, Michael. ...
