Banana is a common fruit found almost everywhere in the world. Recently, I visited Sri Lanka. Though banana is usually yellow in color when it is ripe, and green when unripe, I noticed 5 different colors of a banana–brown, almost red and a similar shade which was different from green and yellow. In this post, […]
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To know what is watermelon is called in Sanskrit is a tricky thing–the common name of watermelon used in India is actually borrowed from the Arabic language. Moreover, a watermelon is called as ‘तरबूज’ and ‘खरबूज’. ‘खरबूज’ is borrowed from the Persian language, though both these fruits are found throughout India. We are providing the
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Whenever there is a mention of a rose’s name in different languages, the famous lines of Sir William Shakespeare flash in mind: What’s in the name? A rose by any other name would smell as sweet. No doubt, the rose is one of the commonest and frequently referred flowers in poetry across the world. Though in Sanskrit,
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Water is the essence of life. Even astronauts who are traveling in the far wide space are curious to find water on another planet because it would mean the feasibility of life. In Sanskrit, water is revered as life itself. Among forty-seven names of water in Sanskrit that we are providing here, one name is
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Water lily is another name given to the most beautiful flower lotus. Lotus happens to be the national flower of India. A lot of people are always interested in knowing what it’s called in the ancient language Sanskrit. We are providing three names of water lily from the dictionary with roman transliteration for people who
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It is always interesting to know different names and meanings of a particular object in Sanskrit. Oftentimes, it is revealing and related to some sort of intriguing insight. I have always found that there are more than one names of an object in Sanskrit–some of them are direct and some are indirect. Like any other
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It is very surprising to know that Dog has more than 20 names in Sanskrit! To be frank, I also did not know about them and came to know only when I thought of creating this post. Many of them are based on the unique qualities that this ‘best friend of man’ possesses. You will
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Sanskrit is a beautiful language and if you can use it for common and day-to-day conversation, it sounds so amazing. To begin with, you can start incorporating one-syllable words into your daily conversations and see how it goes–are you able to pronounce correctly and are you able to convey the feeling of that word? It’s
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How to say thanks in Sanskrit In the recent years, the search about how to say words and things in Sanskrit have increased because a lot of online sources are trying to provide this information. Sadly, a lot of them provide wrong or incomplete information, and some go on the extent of cheating by transliterating
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