Sanskrit Words In Southeast Asian Languages
by Satya Vrat Shastri | 2005 | 125,218 words
This book, entitled "Sanskrit Words In Southeast Asian Languages", explores the profound influence of Sanskrit on Southeast Asian languages and cultures. It highlights India's extensive cultural and linguistic exchanges with Southeast Asia, beginning from ancient times when Indian rulers and religious envoys connected with countries like ...
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458 BENGKOK - crooked, humped, gibbous Skt. a vakra - crooked BENTALA - ar. Earth, land Variant butala Skt. bhutala - the surface of the earth -ASAHAG 38 Inqioning it to ano BENTARA - herald, court - marshal, insignia bearer at a Malay court (they 1 stand on either side of the ruler and proclaim his wishes) Variantabantara Skt. awantara - situated or standing between, subordinate, secondary Skt. vetra - the cane, ratan, the bamboo, a stick, staff, particularly the staff of a door-keeper; vetradhara aa, vetradharaka aarch-a doorkeeper, a mace-bearer, staff-bearer Skt. 3 of abhyantara - interior, internal, intimate BENUA-large expanse of land, empire, continents (Asia, Europe, America, Africa and Australia), mainland in contrast to island. In kindred languages any place, a house, an inhabited place of any sort, a village, a district Skt. bhuvana bhuvana - a world, the number of worlds is either three, as in tribhuvana or fourteen, the earth, heaven, man, mankind BERAHAMANA - Hindu ascetic, Hindu pendeta, a caste Variant - brahman, brahmin, berahaman Skt. brahmana- belonging to a Brahmana, befitting a Brahmana, relating to religious worship, one who knows Brahma, Brahmanh - a man belonging to the first of the four original castes of the Hindus, a Brahmana (born from the mouth of Purusa - Rv. 10. 90), a priest, theologian, a name of a class BERAHI-love, lust Variants - berai, cherai, rahi, (Minangkabau) birahi, (Javanese) wirahi Skt. fart virahi - absent from, being separated from a mistress or lover, lonely, solitary; the word viraha means the separation of lovers CC-0. Prof. Satya