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The Brahmi letter , Ya, is probably derived from the Aramaic Yodh, and is thus related to the modern Latin I and J and Greek Iota. [2] Several identifiable styles of writing the Brahmi Ya can be found, most associated with a specific set of inscriptions from an artifact or diverse records from an historic period. [3]
A Chinese amah (right) with a woman and her three children Joanna de Silva Two ayahs in British India with their charges. An amah (Portuguese: ama, German: Amme, Medieval Latin: amma, simplified Chinese: 阿妈; traditional Chinese: 阿 媽; pinyin: ā mā; Wade–Giles: a¹ ma¹) or ayah (Portuguese: aia, Latin: avia, Tagalog: yaya) is a girl or woman employed by a family to clean, look after ...
The Deori people are one of the major Tibeto-Burmese ethnic group of the Northeast Indian states of Assam and Arunachal Pradesh.They refer to themselves as "Jimochayan" which means children's of Sun and Moon in their native language ( Jimo meaning "seed/child", cha/sã meaning "sun" and Ya meaning "moon").
Yali in pillars at Madurai Meenakshi Amman Temple Yali pillars, Rameshwara Temple, Keladi, Shivamogga District, Karnataka state, India Yali in Aghoreswara temple, Ikkeri, Shivamogga district, Karnataka state, India
Gonda suggests the central meaning of Maya in Vedic literature is, "wisdom and power enabling its possessor, or being able itself, to create, devise, contrive, effect, or do something". [ 33 ] [ 34 ] Maya stands for anything that has real, material form, human or non-human, but that does not reveal the hidden principles and implicit knowledge ...
Separating concepts in Hinduism from concepts specific to Indian culture, or from the language itself, can be difficult. Many Sanskrit concepts have an Indian secular meaning as well as a Hindu dharmic meaning. One example is the concept of Dharma. [4] Sanskrit, like all languages, contains words whose meanings differ across various contexts.
Maya is a primarily feminine name in various languages with various meanings. Originally from Sanskrit, the ancient Indian language, Māyā means "illusion or magic", and is an alternate name of the Hindu goddess Lakshmi. [1] In the Tupi language, of southern Brazil, it means "mother", while Mayara means "grandmother". [2]
Yāska was an ancient Indian [2] grammarian [3] [4] and linguist [5] (7th–5th century BCE [1]).Preceding Pāṇini (7th–4th century BCE [6] [7] [8]), he is traditionally identified as the author of Nirukta, the discipline of "etymology" (explanation of words) within Sanskrit grammatical tradition and the Nighantu, the oldest proto-thesaurus in India. [9]