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etymology - "Sesha" & "kainkarya"

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SrI:

 

Looking for etymological clarification for:

 

1) "Sesha" (as in "bhagavat-Sesha" etc)

Sort of know that "a-Sesha" means "all".

So does "Sesha" probably mean "part of whole"?

 

[ I don't mean that brahman (=whole) is merely a totality of all

chetana and achetana put together.

SrI rAmAnuja clearly says brahman is "sakhala-itara-vilakshaNa".

ie the brahma-tattva is entirely different & distinct from

the jIva & achetana tattva-s !

viSishTAdvaita is about tattva-traya unlike

Sankara-advaita in which there is only brahma-tattva.

 

]

 

 

2) "kainkarya" (as "bhagavat-kainkarya" etc)

Is it probably derived from "kim-kara" ?

(literally meaning "what may I do?" or something?)

 

 

rAmAnuja-dAsa

//Ramkumar

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