Replying to LO28934 --
Hello Andrew,
I can't trace the message from Anjali through this dialogue, but would
like to share my knowledge of her name. I am rather fond of the wonderful
meanings in Indian names although I don't know the meaning of mine. I
think its a shame - so, perhaps this will find it way to Anjali and she
will like to know the explanation.
Anjali is an offering. If you cup both you hands and fill the container
so formed with water, flowers, food anything like this and then just tilt
so that you fingers incline downwards, the content will slowly and
graciously trickle out. That is how offerings are given to Gods,
Ancestral Spirits, Revered Persons and so on. It is this idea of an
offering which holds the beauty and that is an anjali.
We talk of Shraddhanjali. Shraddha being a faith or trust. An offering
of trust.
We can talk of mrutyanjali - an offer made by or for a self sacrificial
death.
The Nobel prize winner Rabindranath Tagore got the prize for his
collection of poems or songs - It was called Geetanjali - Geet is song.
I understand why the meaning was lost. It is such a shame that so many of
our people were illiterate and the words and names lost their beauty and
meaning - particularly for the Indian Diaspora. the Latin script used by
the European languages is so poor at representing sounds of words
accurately and that further damages the preservation of meaning of these
roots ( linguistic , cultural and genealogical). The original Sanskrit (
means 'the designed ' or 'well made') emphasised purity of sound ,
pronunciation and it is accurately reflected in the Devanagari (Of the
city of Gods) script. But, illiteracy and the caste system as well as
history has damaged the purity and the legacy within India itself too.
I hope this was not an intrusion.
Dileep
--"Damle, Dileep" <Dileep.Damle@abbeynational.co.uk>
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