Guest guest Posted July 17, 2005 Report Share Posted July 17, 2005 Namaste, I am currently taking Hindi lessons (so happy!) and I asked my teacher if she could show me how to properly write the sylable Hrim. She had never heard of it. So I brought my book "The Devi Gita" to the temple for lessons and she looked at it and had never seen such a thing before. The temple manager looked at it and he was less disturbed but still unfamiliar with Hrim. Then the assistant teacher who is from a southern state in India said that she recognized the word and the concept and drew out what she thought it looked like. After that there was much discussion over whether or not that matched what I and the text said it sounded like, with much of the discussion around the absense of an "m" in the assistant teacher's rendition. I felt stumped. But I know that the text of the Gita is in the back and that there is numbering, and although I really cannot read it, I felt I could tease out the numbers and look for some matching words and from there try to locate this Hrim that I want to be able to write. I feel it will be a short word and start with Ha that is modified by Ri and include a bindu. No such luck. I'm simply still too ignorant of devenagari script and I'm not even on the map with Sanscrit in spite of my Hindi studies. I cannot find Hrim. Can anyone help me? Blessings, prainbow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 17, 2005 Report Share Posted July 17, 2005 please check the link "http://www.aczoom.com/itrans/online/" ..and typein "hrIM" and hit submit for processing. The webpage allows a phonetical transfrmation into indianlanguage scripts. I am not sure if this is what you are looking for. but hope it helps.! , "prainbow61" <paulie- rainbow@u...> wrote: > Namaste, > > I am currently taking Hindi lessons (so happy!) and I asked my teacher > if she could show me how to properly write the sylable Hrim. She had > never heard of it. So I brought my book "The Devi Gita" to the temple > for lessons and she looked at it and had never seen such a thing > before. The temple manager looked at it and he was less disturbed but > still unfamiliar with Hrim. > > Then the assistant teacher who is from a southern state in India said > that she recognized the word and the concept and drew out what she > thought it looked like. After that there was much discussion over > whether or not that matched what I and the text said it sounded like, > with much of the discussion around the absense of an "m" in the > assistant teacher's rendition. > > I felt stumped. But I know that the text of the Gita is in the back > and that there is numbering, and although I really cannot read it, I > felt I could tease out the numbers and look for some matching words > and from there try to locate this Hrim that I want to be able to > write. I feel it will be a short word and start with Ha that is > modified by Ri and include a bindu. > > No such luck. I'm simply still too ignorant of devenagari script and > I'm not even on the map with Sanscrit in spite of my Hindi studies. I > cannot find Hrim. > > Can anyone help me? > > Blessings, > > prainbow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 17, 2005 Report Share Posted July 17, 2005 You totally rock! Thank you! bahut bahut dhanyavad. prainbow , "Adwaith Menon" <menonar> wrote: > please check the link "http://www.aczoom.com/itrans/online/" ..and > typein "hrIM" and hit submit for processing. The webpage allows a > phonetical transfrmation into indianlanguage scripts. I am not sure > if this is what you are looking for. but hope it helps.! > > > , "prainbow61" <paulie- > rainbow@u...> wrote: > > Namaste, > > > > I am currently taking Hindi lessons (so happy!) and I asked my > teacher > > if she could show me how to properly write the sylable Hrim. She had > > never heard of it. So I brought my book "The Devi Gita" to the > temple > > for lessons and she looked at it and had never seen such a thing > > before. The temple manager looked at it and he was less disturbed > but > > still unfamiliar with Hrim. > > > > Then the assistant teacher who is from a southern state in India > said > > that she recognized the word and the concept and drew out what she > > thought it looked like. After that there was much discussion over > > whether or not that matched what I and the text said it sounded > like, > > with much of the discussion around the absense of an "m" in the > > assistant teacher's rendition. > > > > I felt stumped. But I know that the text of the Gita is in the back > > and that there is numbering, and although I really cannot read it, I > > felt I could tease out the numbers and look for some matching words > > and from there try to locate this Hrim that I want to be able to > > write. I feel it will be a short word and start with Ha that is > > modified by Ri and include a bindu. > > > > No such luck. I'm simply still too ignorant of devenagari script and > > I'm not even on the map with Sanscrit in spite of my Hindi studies. > I > > cannot find Hrim. > > > > Can anyone help me? > > > > Blessings, > > > > prainbow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 17, 2005 Report Share Posted July 17, 2005 Devanagari script can be written in different ways. Hrim can be written as hri-m (half "Ha" and "Ree") coupled ("Ha" with a tail to the left means hr), followed by half "M" as signified by a tail to the right under the "Ma". Another way is h-ri-m written as "Ha", "Ree" and the "M" signified by a "Dot" after "Ree" above the letter to the right. Here since "Ha" preceeds a long consonant (Ree), it is pronounced as "H" (half of "Ha"). In both Sanskrit and Hindi, any short consonant preceeding a long consonant is pronounced as a half consonant - at least that is what my Hindi teacher taught me!! :-) The specific example he used was, ka- ma-laa, which should be pronouced (properly) as kam-laa. There may be some exceptions, will be glad if someone can teach me more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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