[Advaita-l] sAyaNa vs shAyaNa

[S Jayanarayanan]

I've verified with a learned person that it is indeed sAyaNa and not
shAyaNa.

The M-W Sanskrit Dictionary at http://webapps.uni-koeln.de/tamil/
also gives the same spelling.

Thanks,
Kartik

--- Raghavendra Hebbalalu <hs_raghavendra at yahoo.com> wrote:

> namaste,
> An off topic question - but I was just curious to find
> the answer out.
> 
> I've seen for quite some time that mAdhavachArya's
> elder brother sAyaNAchArya has been referred to as
> shAyaNa on this list. In all the books I've seen
> including Skt. ones, it just says sAyaNa. Where did
> the 'h' come from? Assuming that "shAyaNa" was not a
> spelling mistake,  I wanted to know the rationale
> behind this.
> 
> Thanks,
> -Raghavendra
> 
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