HELP!

[Tommertron]

Hi,

 

I'm a proofreader working for a transcription company, and am currently working on a tape documenting the Vishwa Hindu Parishad party in India, specifically in Gujurat. As part of my job, everything must be spelled accurately. What I have not been able to find the spelling of is a ceremony that the VHP performed, which involved giving new members ceremonial knives, which I believe sounded like "Trishul" or "Drishul". If anyone knows the actual spelling of this, and would like to tell me, it would be greatly appreciated.

 

 

[Tarun]

Lord Ziva's trident is called Trisul, Trisula, also spelled Trishul.

There are 3 separate s letters in SanskRt: palatal, cerebral, dental

For internet, due to limited keyboard, we agree to use z S s respectively.

Ergo, in cyberspace Trizul = Trishul = Trisul, all pronounced as/with palatal sibilant sh.

For printing u can use s accent à droit, s dotted below and dental s unaccented.

[Tarun]

For Trisula's exact spelling u must study Deva-nagarI, origin of all alphabets.

Roman letters adequately (not perfectly) represent Vedik SanskRt sound.

[Tommertron]

Thanks a lot, Tarun. Hopefully my client will not mind that I am using the Roman instead of SansKrt letters.

[Tarun]

btw - Accent à droit means á, not à. This European keyboard can't cut it.

Use this accent mark above á above s' to print palatal s.

Actually human keyboard should have many more keys. Zabda-brahman key jaya!

As usual, dvipada-pazus can settle for less/fewer.