Meanings and etymology of several words

[Andrey Terentyev]

Dear Learned members,

I am reading a book "Vaac" by Andre Padoux.

https://ru.scribd.com/document/226168382/Vac-by-Padoux-Andre

On the page #47 (64 in sequence) there are several words i could not find in any dictionary available to me (http://www.sanskrit-lexicon.uni-koeln.de/ )

There are

- bera

- muudra

Could you help me please to clearify meanings as well as etymology of theese words?

Many thanks,

Andrey

[S. L. Abhyankar]

नमस्ते श्रीमन् आन्द्रेय्-तेरेन्त्येव्-महोदय !

On searching for meaning of मुद्रा in Apte's on-line Practical Sanskrit dictionary, I get at <http://dsalsrv02.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/philologic/search3advanced?dbname=apte&query=%E0%A4%AE%E0%A5%81%E0%A4%A6%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BE+&matchtype=exact&display=utf8> page mention of मुद्रा in many contexts, most of them having tantric contexts.

There are books on the science of मुद्रा with titles as मुद्राविज्ञान as can be seen at https://www.google.co.in/search?q=%E0%A4%AE%E0%A5%81%E0%A4%A6%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%9C%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%9E%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A8&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjl4LyN7c3XAhUELpQKHaBaCq0Q_AUIDCgD&biw=958&bih=395 

I have not been able to find any information about "bera".

Cordially, S. L. Abhyankar

[Venkata Sriram]

bera is the Agamic technical term used for 'archA murti'.  The main idol of Srinivasa in Tirumala is called ध्रुव बेरं.  

rgs,

sriram

[Rishi Goswami]

Namaskar Andrey ji.
Bera is mostly a substitute used for the word बिल्व। If we see dhatu is बिल भेदने। रूप बेलति, बेलयति। So if we take the nyaay, "रलयोरभेदः" like लोमन्/रोमन् and dhatus रघि/लघि and many more examples we can make dhatu बिल/बिर भेदने। We can search for a अक्ड़ित प्रत्यय like अच् etc to make it लघूपदगुण=बेल/बेर leaf.
Else I dont know if it is used for Vishnupuja. I dont think so.
But in samskrit there is no word like bera/bela or i haven't seen any use of such words. Amarkoshkar would have mentioned it in the vanoushadhi part if existed. This was just an estimate i could have thought of.
Rishi.

[Nagaraj Paturi]

There was a discussion on the word kubera where some derivations with ku + bera , bera = body were mentioned.

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/bvparishat/4AtuvvmOlcs/ro5MJveNCQAJ

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[rniyengar]

The word Bera and its meaning is well attested in VAstu and Shilpa texts.  Amarakosha as the sole authority for all Sanskrit words is not tenable. 

Yadavaprakasha's (Vaijayanti kosha) has
प्रतिच्छन्दः प्रतिनिधिः बेरं च प्रतिरूपकम्।

प्रतिबिंबोपमाने च सादृश्ये सन्निभे निभम्॥ भूमिकांडे शूद्राध्यायः - २१  

Thanks

RNI

[G S S Murthy]

I have seen ' bera' used in aagama shastra and shilpa shastra. It refers to the vigraha of a deity.

Regards

Murthy

[Srinivasakrishnan ln]

> Amarakosha as the sole authority for all Sanskrit words is not tenable. 

It's a wonderful and deep point though it's been rather mildly stated. This phenomenon, of a felt need for new koshas,  adduces additional evidence for controverting the Indian NCERT group of historians (R Thapar, RS Sharma,  D N Jha) and their rajaguru, DD Kausambi, who have been peddling, for 50+ years,  their own politically motivated  theories of 'death of sanskrit' after Harsha. 

At a rough estimate, 6 or so centuries elapsed between Amarasimha and Yadavaprakasha. 

Hope this helps,

Srini

Srini

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