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That day I could not locate the translation of haMsagatiH from trishati

bhaashhya. This is based on the translation of Chaganti Suryanarayanamurthy.

Please see

 

http://www.escribe.com/religion/advaita/m5422.html

 

Ravi

 

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> M. S. Ravisankar [ravi]

> Tuesday, March 02, 2004 10:56 AM

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> RE: Fwd: Re: significance of animals

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> > Can you please help me understand the derivation of "haMsa"

> > from "ha.nti"?

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> The bhaashhya uses the phrase "hanti gachchhatiiti hamsaH" in

> two names: a)

> hamsavaahana and b) hamsagatiH. One of the meanings of the dhaatu "han.h"

> is "to go". There is another way to look at haMsa (han.h + sak.h

> + ach.h --

> vide Anand Hudli's post in Advaita-l on rudram). Aarathi, can you add more

> on this topic?

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> In fact, Sankara elobarates on the meanings of Sun, breath etc. in the

> context of hamsagatiH (which you can bring into hamsavaahana) in detail,

> this runs more than half a page in the book I have.

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> Ravi

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