Welcome Back Jen!!

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Warm welcome back!! Wonderful to see you around again! You've been missed.

And thank you for sharing your grace and knowledge with us. Much appreciate it.

I'm rather behind with mails and other matters but will log in again soon.

Aum Ganesa

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jenpolan <jenpolan (AT) indya (DOT) com> wrote: Hi groupActually I came back last week.

I did post a message from my email acct (2) but it seems they did not come to

the list. I have decided now I am only posting from this site itself! Now I

can get back in the groove!> > When I read about different gods, I sometimes

see a Sri or Shri > before their names. What does this mean and when would one

use Sri or > Shri or are they interchangeable? I think some one answered this

before. Yes Sh and S are interchangable. The thing is when it is written in

sanskrit the "S" sound when written in english sometimes has a mark put over

the S this is really pronounces in English as SH. I had some replies from my

homepage from non-Indians saying I spelled Shiva wrong cause on my homepage I

had spelled it Siva, but both Shiva and Siva is right, but it is pronounced

SHiva and not Siva (like S in Sam.) As for Shri, some people in south India

were also saying stri. I found that odd. So they said STri and not Shri, so

instead of the H they used T.I know that when things are put > into English

letters they might be written different ways. I have > seen Murugan's name

written Murukan before. And I have seen Hindu as > Hindoo too. So, are Sri and

Shri the same or different, and when are > they used?I would think Murugan is

also spelled Murukan if you are reading a Tamil book. In Tamil the character

used for K and G are the same. It gets really confusing, cause this character

is also used for H as well. Tamil has an H character but it is borrowed from

sanskrit, so many people don't really know it. It is used though. So I knew a

guy named Mahesh, some say Magesh. So, the names Mahesh and Magesh are the

same as are Vignesh and Vinesh. I sometimes get annoyed when I see

translations like Hindoo and Saree though Sari is the same as Saree > > Also,

can someone explain to me the addition of ji or i on the end Yeah, ji means

respect. Usually people would not add this to their own names, but it is added

by others to respect you. Like Gandhiji is a famous one. I also have never

heard of plain 'i' But some others to show respect called elders aunty or

uncle after their names also.Jennifer

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