[Q] Suri Suri Maha Suri SuSuri Savaha
Raghu Seshadri
: Dear All,
:
: I have no knowledge of Sanscrit.
:
: In korea, when a person wants to make magic words, usually he
: says above sentences, "Suri Suri Maha Suri, Susuri Savaha".
Yes, they certainly are of Sanskrit origin.
The only recognizable words for me are 'Maha'
which means 'great' and 'Svaha', which is the
final incantation in all mantras.
RS
hong hunsoo
I have no knowledge of Sanscrit.
In korea, when a person wants to make magic words, usually he
says above sentences, "Suri Suri Maha Suri, Susuri Savaha".
Imagine a situation when a magician want to convert a pigeon into
a rat whiling grasping a pegion in his hand and hiding his hands
with a hankerchief.
The above stange words are used when someone want to get
magical power, like converting a pegeon into a rat.
The words seem to that they are originated from the Buddhism
(Remember that buddhism was widespread from ancient time in Korea),
so that they seem to me that they are orinated from Sanscrit.
Is there anybody who has heard about above magical sentence?
Is there anybody who can give me the original Sanscrit sentence
of above magical words?
I guessed that "Suri Suri Maha Suri" means that "God, God, Great god..".
But I can not sure.
Remember that I am not language specialist and ..
I have a sanscrit dictionary. http://www.uni-koeln.de
Thanks
naveed
http://www.uni-koeln.de/phil-fak/indologie/tamil/mwd_search.html
Entry svAhA
Meaning ind. (prob. fr. 5. %{su} and %{ah} ; cf. %{dur-AhA}) hail!
hail to! may a blessing rest on! (with dat. ; an exclamation used in
making oblations to the gods ; with %{kR} [ind. p. %{-kA4ram} , or %{-
kRtya}] and acc. `" to pronounce the exclamation Sva1ha1 over "') RV.
&c. &c. ; f. an oblation (offered to Agni , Indra &c.) or Oblation
personified (as a daughter of Daksha and wife of Agni ; she is thought
to preside over burnt-offerings ; her body is said to consist of the
four Vedas , and her limbs are the six An3gas or members of the Veda ;
she is represented also as a wife of the Rudra Pas3u-pati) RV. &c. &c.
suri is probably a corrupted form of shree (zrI for the dictionary!)
zrI
Entry zrI
Meaning 3 f. (prob. to be connected with 1. %{zri} and also with 1. %
{zrI} in the sense of `" diffusing light or radiance "' [1098,3] ; nom.
%{zrI4s} accord. to some also %{zrI}) light , lustre , radiance ,
splendour , glory , beauty , grace , loveliness (%{zriye4} and %
{zriyai4} , `" for splendour or beauty "' , `" beauteously "' ,
gloriously "' cf. %{zriya4se} ; du. %{zriyau} , `" beauty and
prosperity "' ; %{zriya@AtmajAH} , `" sons of beauty "' i.e. horses
[cf. %{zrI-putra}] ; %{zriyaH@putrAH} "' , goats with auspicious
marks "') RV. &c. &c. ; prosperity , welfare , good fortune , success ,
auspiciousness , wealth , treasure , riches (%{zriyA} , `"
accordñaccording to fortune or wealth "') , high rank , power , might ,
majesty , royal dignity (or `" Royal dignity "' personified ; %
{zriyo@bhAjaH} , `" possessors of dignity "' , `" people of high
rank "') AV. &c. &c. ; symbol or insignia of royalty Vikr. iv , 13 ; N.
of Lakshmi1 (as goddess of prosperity or beauty and wife of Vishn2u ,
produced at the churning of the ocean , also as daughter of Bhr2igu and
as mother of Darpa) S3Br. &c. &c. ; N. of Sarasvati1 (see %{-
paJcamI}) ; of a daughter of king Su-s3arman Katha1s. ; of various
metres Col. ; (the following only in L. `" a lotus-flower ; intellect ,
understanding ; speech ; cloves ; Pinus Longifolia ; Aegle Marmelos ; a
kind of drug = %{vRddhi} ; N. of a Buddhist goddess and of the mother
of the 17th Arhat "') ; m. N. of the fifth musical Ra1ga (see %{rAga})
Sam2gi1t. ; mfn. diffusing light or radiance , splendid , radiant ,
beautifying , adorning (ifc. ; see %{agni-} , %{adhvara-} , %{kSatra-
} , %{gaNa-} , %{jana-zrI} &c.) RV. iv , 41 , 8. [The word %{zrI} is
frequently used as an honorific prefix (= `" sacred "' , `" holy "') to
the names of deities (e.g. S3ri-Durga1 , S3ri1-Ra1ma) , and may be
repeated two , three , or even four times to express excessive
veneration. (e.g. S3ri1-s3ri1-Durga1 &c.) ; it is also used as a
respectful title (like `" Reverend "') to the names of eminent persons
as well as of celebrated works and sacred objects (e. g. S3ri1-
Jayadeva. S3ri1Bha1gavata) , and is often placed at the beginning or
back of letters , manuscripts , important documents &c. ; also before
the words %{caraNa} and %{pAda} `" feet "' , and even the end of
personal names.]
If considered as a corrupted form of sura:
Entry sura
Meaning m. (prob. fr. %{asura} as if fr. %{a-sura} and as %{sita} fr. %
{a-sita} ; thought by some to be connected with 2. %{svar}) a god ,
divinity , deity (%{surANAM@hantR} m. `" slayer of the gods "'N. of a
partic. form of fire , son of Tapas) MaitrUp. MBh. &c. ; the image of a
god , an idol Vishn2. ; a symbolical N. for the number `" thirty-
three "' (from the 33 gods ; see %{deva}) Gan2it. ; a sage , learned
man L. ; the sun L. ; (said to be) = %{kSura} MBh. ; w.r. for %{svara}
ib. ; (%{A}) f. see s.v. ; (%{I}) f. a goddess Naish. HParis3. ; (%
{am}) n. see %{surA}.
n.
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Mici Maci
could it be that it is "Sri" instead of "Suri"
and that Koreans say "Suri" because they have no
consonant cluster "sr" in their language as Japanese
don't have ;
although I don't know sanscrit , according to my dicitionary
"su-" means "good" when used as a prefix ;
I also suppose that "sri" means god , because there's
"sri rama" , ..... and it many times appears in mantras
before god names ;
so I suppose this means :
" God , God , great God , good God , .... "