[Advaita-l] shankara bhagavatpAda

[Guy Werlings]

Dear Sri Vidya,
Thank you very much indeed for you prompt and detailed clarification. Of 
course, after all these years, I ought to know better.

shruti smR^iti purANAnaaM aalayaM karuNAlayam.h |

namAmi bhagavtpAdaM sha~NkaraM lokasha~Nkaram.h ||

VandanAni |

Guy

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> Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2007 08:13:01 -0700
> From: "Vidyasankar Sundaresan" <svidyasankar at hotmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Advaita-l] shankara bhagavadpAda
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>>Could one of the members proficient in samskR^itam clarify for me which
>>spelling is correct:  bhagavadpAda or bhagavatpAda. I have seen both and I
>>guess one must be grammatically false.
>>Apologise for being so fussy, as usual.
>>
>
> Dear Sri Werlings,
>
> It is a very legitimate question and I, for one, wish that more people
> attempt to understand language more clearly.
>
> The root word is bhagavat, the termination of which undergoes changes 
> based
> on what follows in a combination, according to standard sandhi rules. When
> it stands alone in the masculine nominative form, bhagavat gets converted 
> to
> bhagavAn and in the feminine nominative, it becomes bhagavatI.
>
> The hard consonant, when followed by a vowel, gets softened. e.g.
>
> bhagavat + anugraha = bhagavad-anugraha
> bhagavat + icchA = bhagavad-icchA
>
> When followed by a nasal, the consonant gets converted to the nasal of the
> same class. e.g.
>
> bhagavat + nAma = bhagavan-nAma
>
> When followed by a soft consonant of the ka- and pa- classes (aspirated or
> unaspirated), the hard consonant gets softened to the unaspirated form, 
> but
> when followed by a hard consonant (aspirated or unaspirated), it undergoes
> no change. e.g.
>
> bhagavat + gamana = bhagavad-gamana
> bhagavat + ghanaprajna = bhagavad-ghanaprajna
>
> bhagavat + bAla = bhagavad-bAla
>
> bhagavat + kaTAksha = bhagavat-kaTAksha
> bhagavat + karuNA = bhagavat-karuNA
>
> Accordingly, the correct form is bhagavatpAda, with no change to the
> terminal consonant in -vat. There are further rules that apply when the
> following sound is a consonant from another class or a sibilant, which I
> won't enumerate here. Similar transformations take place in other words
> ending in -vat or -mat too, e.g. bhavat and SrImat (bhavad-bAla, 
> SrImannAma
> etc.)
>
> We must remember that sandhi is often described as the rules of euphonious
> combination. The thumb rule is to get the spoken form of the combined 
> sound
> pleasant and easy to pronounce, and one will mostly get it right. We all 
> do
> this without consciously thinking about it, when speaking our own 
> languages
> after all. The only thing to remember in saMskRta is that in addition to 
> the
> spoken sound, the written form also alters its spelling consistently.
>
> Warm regards,
> Vidyasankar
>
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