[Advaita-l] Sri Lalita Hrudayam

[Vidyasankar Sundaresan]

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> > when you say "sampad" and "sampat" give opposite meanings, can you elaborate please? what are the opposite meanings please? I am not well versed in Sanskrit that's why I am asking.
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> There are no opposite meanings possible here. The real problem is not about meaning, but about the quality of the sound.
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That said, as already pointed out, the extra a-kAra before sampatprada is a real problem of unintended changes in meaning due to typos!

 

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> The ta-kAra should be used (sampat-) because of the following term, -prada. It would have been sampad (da-kAra) if a different sound had followed, e.g. a vowel, as per rules of sandhi in saMskRta. 
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> Most of these rules of sandhi should really be quite intuitively obvious. There is a hard conjunct consonant "pr" in -prada, so naturally, a hard consonant ending in -t for the preceding word sampat- (instead of the soft consonant ending in -d) would be the natural way to recite it all together. In fact, I would venture to suggest that most people, even if they see the printed word as sampad-prada would pronounce it as sampat-prada when reciting, because that would be the natural tendency of the human voice.
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> Regards,
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> Vidyasankar
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