[Advaita-l] Namah - An irregular word-form or nipAta with meaning too?

[V Subrahmanian]

On Sun, Aug 26, 2018 at 9:06 PM Raghav Kumar Dwivedula via Advaita-l <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> Namaste
> The syllable namaH is regarded as a nipAta or irregular word-form (of the
> likes of svAhA used for offering oblations to the deva-s, svadhA for the
> worship of ancestors etc), used in the sense of "salutation" in many
> mantras.
>
> Is any such "meaning" assignable to the word namaH?
> Is there any scriptural basis that this word namaH also carries the sense
> of  "na mama" (this belongs not to me but to the Lord.)?
>

There was a detailed discussion on this topic in the BVP group some years
ago:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/bvparishat/hcPTRR1BGGI        See
all the posts there.

Also, Sri Vidyaranya has said in the Suta samhita  4.8.10,11 vyakhya in
this connection:  प्रह्वीभावस्य पर्यवसानभूमिमाह - प्रह्वता नामेति ।
न्यग्भावेन नमस्कर्तव्यप्रत्यासत्तिः प्रह्वत्वम् | तच्च मायया
परशिवस्वरूपाद्भेदेन परिकल्पितस्य जीवस्य पुनस्तत्स्वरूपेण तादात्य्मलक्षणे
संबन्धे विश्राम्यतीत्यर्थः |

'Identity' with the one to which namah is offered is the ultimate purport
of namah.

regards
subbu


> Om
>
> Raghav
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