Soma in Vedas

[S.V.SWAMY]

Namaste,

Soma means Moon. Uma is the name for Parvati. How Moon got the name Soma I
can't say. siva is Somasekhara, because He has Moon in His head (hair)!

Swamy SV

At 16:22 05/09/02 -0400, you wrote:
>namaste,
>
>>"soma" = "s" + "om", that which accompanies "om", or
>>that which we take in with "om".
>
>I'm not an expert on sanskrit grammar, but I think the above sandhi may be
>wrong. "sa" means accompanying, not "s". Therefore "soma" can be split as
>"sa" + "uma" ("a" + "u" = "o") or "accompanying uma". Soma can therefore be
>a name for Lord Shiva (as in Somaskandaparameshwara).
>
>Sruti smRti purANAnAm Alayam karuNAlayam
>namAmi bhagavatpAda Sam.karam lokaSam.karam
>
>Aniruddhan
>