Guest guest Posted October 27, 2002 Report Share Posted October 27, 2002 Could anyone help with some explaination of the sanskrit term cakratîrtha? In Puri (Orissa) I lived on a very long beach with this name. Someone suggested that cakra is the mythical disk/weapon of war, and the compound refers to a place for practicing this martial art. Or might cakra imply empire/realm? Any ideas? Troy Dean Haris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 31, 2002 Report Share Posted October 31, 2002 INDOLOGY, "troyoga" <troyoga> wrote: > Could anyone help with some explaination of the sanskrit term > cakratîrtha? In Puri (Orissa) I lived on a very long beach with this > name. Someone suggested that cakra is the mythical disk/weapon of > war, and the compound refers to a place for practicing this martial > art. Or might cakra imply empire/realm? Any ideas? > > Troy Dean Haris In the south temples, there are temple ponds named cakratIrtha. Also, the mythology that Sagaras dug out the eastern ocean (kuNa kaTal in t= amil). BTW, tIrtha, tIrthangara (usually applied to Jaina saints) has a Dravidian etymology. A. Parpola, 2002. Sacred bathing place and transcendence: Dravidian kaTa(vuL) as the source of Indo-Aryan ghAT, tIrtha, tIrthankara and (tri)vikrama. In: Olle Qvarnström (ed.), Jainism and early Buddhism: Essays in honor of Padmanabh S. Jaini, I-II. Berkeley: Asian Humanities Press. So also, zramaNa, and zrAvaNa nakshatram (also called mukkOl "3 pronged for= k") - can be linked to Tamil words like bending, folding kavuL 'fold', kavaTu/kavaTTi 'fork', camaTTu-vaNTi 'bicycle' etc., Regards, N. Ganesan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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