Upasarga Prati-

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Dr. MadhusUdan Mishra is following the path of isolative to

agglutinative to inflectional. My primary interest in Sanskrit is

centered on finding the proper Sanskrit substitutes to the English

technical words like Stochastic process, Entropy, Probability etc. In the

scheme proposed by Dr. Mishra, meanings are attached to certain

syllables. I took the different approach. My hypothesis is as follows- If

it is shown that Sanskrit Upasargas "Vi" and "Ni" have fixed meanings

everywhere and if those meanings were deciphered, then perhaps it might

be possible to decipher the meaning of a single vowel "i " present in

both of them by cross checking. There was discussion on the word PratimA.

Let us see if the Upasarga 'Prati" has fixed meaning or not.

 

Hypothesis-The fixed meaning of Upasarga "Prati" is "less than original".

 

(1) Prati-dhvani =Echo. It is less in quality than that of original

Dhvani (sound).

 

(2)Prati-bimba =Image. Image is less in quality than that of the Bimba

(object).

 

(2) Prati-kAra = Reaction. It is less in magnitude than kAra (action).

 

(4)Prati-panna =share of a company. The business company sells shares

(prati-panna) in order to raise the capital (panna). A share is smaller

than the total capital. This word has a second beautiful meaning. It

means one's share in life. (NirvAha~h pratipanna vastu_su. Free

translation-Recognize your share in life and honor it).

 

(5) Prati-nidhi = A representative. An ambassador is representative of

his government

-a bigger establishment (nidhi). In statistics, one studies a sample

(Pratinidhi) from a bigger population (nidhi).

 

(6) Prati-j~nyAna =Acknowledgement. The acknowledge is less in size than

the extent of the original knowledge or message (j~nyAna).

 

(7) Prati-mA = Icon. It is small compared to the object it represents.

 

(8) Prati-mAna = Underdesign-less than the original measurement.

 

(9) Prati-graha = discarded portion, a spitting pot. The parent word

"graha" means to accept, while the word "pratigraha" means to discard a

portion of it. The discarded portion is received in Pratigraha. It could

be called a sink . In the terminology of the heat engines of mechanical

engineering, Pratigraha padma is exhaust manifold.

 

(10) Prati-zata= percentage. Now percentage could be one hundred (100)

or less than one hundred.

 

When I ask my friends, the Sanskrit word for probability, I get the

answer as, "ZakyatA" or "SambhavatA". Now "ZakyatA" is possibility.

Unless there is possibility, the probability does not arise. And

"SambhavatA" is future possibility. So what is the new Sanskrit word for

probability. It is PratyekatA.

 

(11) Prati-eka = It is either one or less than one just like probability.

Let us call it PratyekatA.

 

(12) Stochastic Process = It is the process with "Asthira PratyekatA".

 

Could you explain now the meaning of "Prati-bhA"? Or try other words from

dictionary like "Pratryaksha" but think very slowly. We have habit of

jumping in the semantic space.

 

In this way we could find internally consistent terminology for English

technical words like Entropy, Simulation, Elements, Isotopes, Mode, Mean,

Bell curve, random processes, Spectral components, phase, amplitude,

complex number, nut, bolt, spring, frequency, periodic time, surface

waves, electric field, magnetic field, capacitance, inductance etc.

Hundreds of technical Sanskrit words are scattered throughout the ancient

technical books of India on astronomy, music, math, logic and so on. A

new theory is needed to appreciate them.