Guest guest Posted August 9, 2008 Report Share Posted August 9, 2008 Pranams to all, a friend just send me a mail to ask what shanti means. She had looked for the word in the Cologne dictionary without success, using this link: http://webapps.uni-koeln.de/tamil/. Of course I know what shanti means, but I am surprised that I myself was unable to find the word spelled as shanti or santi or sant in that dictionary. Can anyone of you explain this? Incidentally there is also no shanti appearing when asking the other way round for the English word peace. Om shanti! Sitara Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 9, 2008 Report Share Posted August 9, 2008 Namaste, One has to use the Harvard-Kyoto convention for the entry: zAnti f. tranquillity , peace , quiet , peace or calmness of mind , absence of passion , averting of pain (%{zAnti}! %{zAnti}! %{zAnti}! may the three kinds of pain be averted!) , indifference to objects of pleasure or pain Kat2hUp. MBh. & c. ; alleviation (of evil or pain) , cessation , abatement , extinction (of fire & c.) AV. & c. & c. ; a pause , breach , interruption Hcat. ; any expiatory or propitiatory rite for averting evil or calamity Br. & c. (cf. RTL. 346) ; peace , welfare , prosperity , good fortune , ease , comfort , happiness , bliss MBh. R. & c. ; destruction , end , eternal rest , death Ka1v. Katha1s. BhP. ; = %{zAnti-kalpa} BhP. ; Tranquillity & c. personified (as a daughter of S3raddha1 , as the wife of Atharvan , as the daughter of Daksha and wife of Dharma) Hariv. Prab. Pur. ; m. N. of a son of Indra MBh. ; of Indra in the tenth Manv-antara Pur. ; of a Tushita (son of Vishn2u and Dakshin2a1) ib. ; of a son of Kr2ishn2a and Ka1lindi1 ib. ; of a R2ishi MBh. ; of a son of An3giras ib. ; of a disciple of Bhu1ti Ma1rkP. ; of a son of Ni1la and father of Su- s3a1nti VP. ; (with Jainas) of an Arhat and Cakra-vartin L. ; of a teacher (also called %{ratnA7kara-z-}) Buddh. Regards, Sunder advaitin , " Sitara " <smitali17 wrote: > > Pranams to all, > a friend just send me a mail to ask what shanti means. She had looked for the word in the > Cologne dictionary without success, using this link: http://webapps.uni-koeln.de/tamil/. > Of course I know what shanti means, but I am surprised that I myself was unable to find > the word spelled as shanti or santi or sant in that dictionary. Can anyone of you explain > this? > Incidentally there is also no shanti appearing when asking the other way round for the > English word peace. > Om shanti! > Sitara > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 10, 2008 Report Share Posted August 10, 2008 Dear Sitara (and Sunder-ji), I have just discovered that there is a ‘new and improved’ version of the Monier-Williams dictionary which allows entry of the search term in ITRANS format - http://www.sanskrit-lexicon.uni-koeln.de/monier/ - so if you enter ‘shAnti’ there is no problem. So no need to learn HK convention! Best wishes, Dennis advaitin [advaitin ] On Behalf Of Sitara Mitali Sunday, August 10, 2008 8:36 AM advaitin AW: Re: shanti Dear Sunderji, thank you, this was very helpful. Can you tell me whether there is a way to find out about the Harvard-Kyoto-conventional spelling of words via internet? Om shanti Sitara .. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 10, 2008 Report Share Posted August 10, 2008 I would recommend to all that they learn ITRANS if they want to be able to understand the meaning of key Sanskrit terms  (by looking them up and remembering them). It really is not very difficult (immeasurably easier than learning Devanagari script!). There is a short description – easy to read; several pages – at my website: http://www.advaita.org.uk/sanskrit/itrans.htm. This also contains the Devanagari but you can ignore that if you are not interested. Once you have learned ITRANS, you can then look up the common words from every page of my website from the menu bar at the top – ‘Terms – Dictionary – section’. Or, for less common words, use the link I gave to the Cologne dictionary - http://www.sanskrit-lexicon.uni-koeln.de/monier/. Best wishes, Dennis Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 11, 2008 Report Share Posted August 11, 2008 Dear Denis,Thanks a lot for the new discovery. I was badly requiring an online dictionary. What you have provided combines both simple to use and usefulness.With regards,Anupam. On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 2:05 PM, Dennis Waite <dwaite wrote: Dear Sitara (and Sunder-ji), I have just discovered that there is a 'new and improved' version of the Monier-Williams dictionary which allows entry of the search term in ITRANS format - http://www.sanskrit-lexicon.uni-koeln.de/monier/ - so if you enter 'shAnti' there is no problem. So no need to learn HK convention! Best wishes, Dennis advaitin [advaitin ] On Behalf Of Sitara Mitali Sunday, August 10, 2008 8:36 AM advaitin AW: Re: shanti Dear Sunderji, thank you, this was very helpful. Can you tell me whether there is a way to find out about the Harvard-Kyoto-conventional spelling of words via internet? Om shanti Sitara .. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You are posting as a guest. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.
Note: Your post will require moderator approval before it will be visible.