A small question

[Ravisankar Mayavaram]

--- "Jaldhar H. Vyas" <jaldhar at braincells.com> wrote:

>
> The modern Indian languages have diverged slightly from Sanskrit
> pronounciation.  E.g. Bengalis say b instead of v, Gujaratis drop a at
> the
> end of a syllable etc.  'bramha' is probably like this.  But the correct
> Sanskrit pronounciation is brahma with a hma.
>
> Paninis' grammar doesn't but later grammatical works often include
> an appendix with extra sutras to convert from Prakrit to Sanskrit.
>
> --

shrii shrii chandrasekharendra sarasvatii in one of his talks (I think
Acharya Calls), mentions brahma and vahni is pronounced as bramha and
vanhi. These are exceptions.  Before reading this, I used wonder why
M.S.Sheela's(a very beautiful) rendering of lalitaa sahasranaama
pronounces the name as vanhimaNDalavaasinii.

But in that talk (if I remember correctly) he does not elaborate why.



=====
Ravi <miinalochanii at yahoo.com>
miinalochanii paashamochanii shive paahi shive paahi
http://www.geocities.com/miinalochanii/meenakshi/
__________________________________________________
Do You Yahoo!?
Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger.
http://im.yahoo.com

--
bhava shankara deshikame sharaNam

Archives : http://lists.advaita-vedanta.org/archives/advaita-l.html
Help     : Email to listmaster at lists.advaita-vedanta.org
Options  : To leave the list send a mail to
           listserv at lists.advaita-vedanta.org with
           SIGNOFF ADVAITA-L in the body.