[Advaita-l] svasti vs. svastiH

Raghav Kumar Dwivedula raghavkumar00 at gmail.com
Thu Nov 4 12:22:00 EDT 2021


Thank you Praveen ji and Subbu ji that settles it.

I totally forgot the puruSa sUkta example.
Om
Raghav

On Thu, 4 Nov, 2021, 3:30 pm Praveen R. Bhat via Advaita-l, <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> Namaste Raghav ji,
>
> स्वस्ति has avyaya as also strilinga and napuMsaka forms in the same
> meaning. What you are seeing is the declined feminine form. Apte dictionary
> lists it so, with examples from Mahabharata and Bhagavatam.
>
> Kind rgds,
> --Praveen R. Bhat
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> That, owing to which all this is known! [Br.Up. 4.5.15] */
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 4, 2021 at 3:03 PM Raghav Kumar Dwivedula via Advaita-l <
> advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
>
> > Namaste
> > There is a popular version of the prayer which goes
> > sarveShAM svastir bhavatu
> > सर्वेषाम् स्वस्तिर्भवतु |
> >
> > Should it not be
> > sarveShAM svasti bhavatu
> > सर्वेषाम् स्वस्ति भवतु ?
> >
> > The nipAta word being svasti rather than svastiH.
> >
> > Incidentally this prayer's source is untraceable.
> >
> > सर्वेषां स्वस्तिर्भवतु ।
> >
> > सर्वेषां शान्तिर्भवतु ।
> >
> > सर्वेषां पूर्णं भवतु ।
> >
> > सर्वेषां मड्गलं भवतु ॥
> >
> >
> > Any clarity is appreciated.
> >
> >
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