Etymology of the word Bhaarata = the correct name for India
Murthy's Comments and Corrections to Sadguru Jaggi Vasudev's definition and explanation on youtube about the name Bharata,
His attempt to etymological roots for Bharata
In an interview-style that he is most of the time very good in outsmarting, with his characteristic belly laugh, was as follows:
bha = sensation
ra = raaga
tha = thaaLa
bha + ra + ta = bharata
as if the three letters are an abbreviation using the first letters of the three words.
Let me tell you that Sadhguru is very street smart and especially when detects that the interviewer, however famous they are, not knowledgeable in certain areas. He drags and treads on such answers and takes the attention away from the interviewer and the panel moderator. By the by, Sadhguru invasive in many talks and media interviews. I have great admiration for him in building a big empire of followers, manage to acquire a large land in Tamil Nadu, and with events attended by thousands of people.
I have great praise for his many skills, not in his expressly treading into areas of very little understanding and even sometimes know knowledge.
The etymology of the word Bhaarata
As I have posted on Facebook and other forums, I have developed the Sanskrit (samskritam) etymology for all words down to the following:
1. Moola Beeja Akshara = Root Seed Letter
2. Modified by prefix letter or letters; also modified by suffix letter or letters
The detailed treatise is presented in blogs in Murthy's Sanskrit Etymology series of blog posts, and also in my Facebook posts. Feel free to contact me if you like webinars on samskritam etymology, phonology, and variants based on contexts and usage through our centuries and millennia.
The letter bha the mahaa praaNa version of the vyanjana akshara that comes after pa, pha, ba and before ma in the vyanjana akshara maala
The akshara bha is a profound akshara with a broad meaning, as all the aksharas in the samskritam language, which is highly specialized and perfectly structured especially in the phonological aspects called in samskritam as shabda. I will give you some examples to explain the depth and spectrum of implied meanings and its profundity.
bha is the root akshara in the following words, as examples:
bhaga
bhagavanta
bhara
bharaNi
bharaNa
bhava
bhageerata
bhaja
bhaTa
bhaya
bhakShya
In the above examples, the moola beeja akshara bha is modified in the combined meaning after adding a suffix aksharas. When an additional suffix akshara is added to the above words the meaning and context get further modified. Notice that I have given extensive discussions of the "modification" paradigm in samskritam. One way to perceive the moola beeja akshara and also the additions of each prefix or suffix aksharas is in Boolean concept and especially boolean intersections.
The above examples are for the hrasva form of mahaa praaNa vyanjana akshara bha.
Let us look at the deergha akshara version: bhaa - which is used in the word bhaarata. The deergha modification of the different aksharas in a word create derivative words with the derivation of the total words and respective changes in the meaning and context of the words.
Examples: bhara ---> bhaara. One meaning of the word bhaara is pressure or weight. The word bhara meaning fill gets further modified in bharaNa meaning filling by the addition of Na after bhara in the suffix. Hindi speakers may notice the colloquial word bharana meaning the act of filling. bharO in Hindi refers to telling some else to fill as in aap bharO. bharata is one who fills or holds as the suffix akshara ta provides the derivative action referring to someone who does the action or has the responsibility of bhara action or responsibility. When bha is transformed to its deergha akshara version bhaa, it refers to "of or related to" bhara. In the case of the word bhaarata, it refers to the nation or dEsha also called varsha the integral land that has the property of responsibility. The word responsibility here is a broader meaning of taking sacred pressure or sacred filling, or sacred responsibility.
The land, the earth, and the holistic concepts are feminine, divine and the mother or ultimately motherland is Bharati, in the metaphoric image of the Mother Bharati.
I have also watched and admired Sadhguru Jaggi (Jagannatha or Jagadish) Vasudev on youtube and have admired his lectures, interview dialogues, and his panel performance even the scientists, celebrities and including prying bite of secularly astute Bukha Dutt and also the infantile personalities of some students and youngsters, especially the ignorantly brash Millennium Generation expressly displaying their serious intellectual limitations.
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