Fwd: Kanchi Maha-Swamigal's Discourses on Advaita Saadhanaa (KDAS-19)

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advaitin , " V. Krishnamurthy " <profvk>

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advaitin , " hersh_b " <hershbhasin@g...> wrote:

>

> Namaste ProfVK-Ji

> Can you please explain why we capitalize certain words in the

English

> translation of Sanskrit words. For example " I " and " A " in vIta-

rAga.

>

> Regards

> Hersh

>

Namaste, Hersh-ji

 

The pronunciation of vIta-rAga (as a Sanskrit word) is viitaraaga.

The

double 'i' is to lengthen the sound of 'i'. The double 'a' is to

lengthen the sound of 'a'. Instead of using the double letters I

use

(according to the Kyoto-Harvard convention for transliteration)

capital letters. Thus:

 

'a' stands for the 'u' sound in 'but'

'A' or 'aa' stands for the 'a' in 'father'

'i' stands for the 'i' in 'sit'

'I' or 'ii' stands for the 'ea' sound in 'meal'

'e' stands for the 'ay' sound in 'may' (Note: There is no short

vowel

sound in Sanskrit corresponding to the 'e' sound in 'belt')

'o' stands for the 'o' in 'go'. (Note: There is no short vowel in

Sanskrit corresponding to the 'o' in 'wonder')

'u' stands for the 'u' sound in 'put'

'U' or 'uu' stands for the 'oo' sound in 'fool'

'N' stands for the 'n' sound in 'band' or 'land' or 'vendor'

A final 'M' stands for the sound 'um' as in 'mum'

't' and 'd' are dentals

'T' and 'D' are linguals.

 

PraNAms to all advaitins.

profvk

 

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