Re: Is MEENA a sanskrit word or a old tamil word ?.

[narayanan er]

Dear Shri Shobhan Ganji,
I have replied to a question on the etymology of the Sanskrit term MEENA to Dr. N. R. Joshi in the following way, a few days ago (on Mon, 4 July, 2011) :
The term मीनः is in masculine gender from the root मीञ् हिंसायाम् with a suffix नक् supported by the Unadi rule 3.3 फेनमीनौ, and the derivation will be मीयते हिंस्यते इति मीनः।  Amarasimha gives a lexical support to this as मत्स्यः (1-10-17). Why it is in masculine gender ? The Panini Linganushasana says : नोपधः, the syllable न् as the penultimate one to the अ ending like इनः, फेनः etc.
The terms MEENAM & MEEN (both used for fish-singular) is used in Tamil and Malayalam. I don't know the Tamil etymology of the term.
There are different approaches in perceiving knowledge in India and the West. The Amarakosha of Amarasimha is a Sanskrit Lexicon but not a Tamil one. There are sincere people in the West too, but there will be deliberate attempts to topple the system of traditional learning, with a pretext that the traditional learning has almost been vanished in India. The great Max Muller though learned Vedas and Classical literature, but too failed establish his predominant fundamental thinkings on own Semitic religion upon the well-learned Indians. Irrespective of Jains, Buddhists, Yajnikas or any group in India were thoroughly trained in Sanskrit & Indian culture with the oral tradition in the past. That tradition cannot be erased from the society very easily.
We are still the victims of colonialism since the seventeenth century, but no need of panic. There is a minority of younger generation in India, with the blessings of old and respected well learned scholars, are learning Sanskrit traditionally irrespective of their caste and creed, with a great sign ahead unchallengeable by any force in the world. The moto is: commitment, dedication, hard work to learn the treasure and culture by keeping the morality and ethics intact. I am sure Sanskrit and culture will be protected at any cost at least in India.

 

Regards,
Narayanan

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From: shobhan ganji <shobha...@yahoo.com>
To: gira...@juno.com; drerna...@yahoo.com; narayana...@gmail.com
Sent: Fri, 29 July, 2011 4:43:30 AM
Subject: Is MEENA a sanskrit word or a old tamil word ?.

Dear All,   My namaste to you all. I have been a serious student of Bhagavata Purana for quite some time ( almost 10 years) and I work as a software engineer in California, USA. I was very saddened by the way Scholars like Witzel and Parpola denegrate the Rigveda to 1200 B.C and impose their Aryan Migration Theory.  Abviously I hated this theory ever since I started reading books on Indus script and its decipherment by Parpola and also publications by Professor Witzel. I myself took some interest in understanding the Indus script and met a decipherer in San-Francisco recently. However, I didn't understand how to counter pose the dravidian theory perpetuated by Professor Parpola and etc. MEENA was one of the words used by Parpola to support this dravidian theory. This word is extensively used in his decipherment book. Until now I used to think only Matsya in Sanskrit means fish and MEENA is not a Sanskrit word and purely a dravidian word. Parpola totally ignore panini's Unadi rule and its reference in Vamana Purana.  I some how knew that this attribution by Parpola is wrong but I didn't have any proof to write to him. Now that I found this proof on bvparishat google groups, I am going to write to him and ask him if he is aware of the fact that MEENA is a sanskrit word.  It is important that scholars like you who are also sanskritists challenge and bring a resolution if possible to the Indus script problem . We need to preserve Sanskrit in India by hook or crook. Sanskrit in India is dwindling by the bias by the so called GOI who is interested only in appeasement politics and want to destroy ancient Indian Hindu identity by hook or crook to paint India a fully secular country from the very begining.  I think dravidian politicians are also interested in this game now since they awarded parpola ( Rs 10 lakhs award) for his dravidian theory for the Indus problem. Unfortunately the truth is burried deeply in History and Indian politicians are busy destroying the truth for political gains . It is upto the sanskrit scholars to present the truth about ancient India and Indus valley civilization as it is in truth. Please forgive my spelling mistakes or errors in this message. Sincerely, s.g.