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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Andy Howey <andyandmae_howey@...>
wrote:
> How can molten metal be potable? My Sanskrit resources are rather
limited, so I can't find a translation for "soma", but in the
glossary section of "A Concise Elementary Grammar of the Sanskrit
Language" by Jan Gonda, there is a translation for "rasa" --
it's "juice". Is comparing Modern Tamil, a Dravidian language, with
Sanskrit, an Indo-European language, really practical?
Sure, Andy. Rasa also means juice. It also means alchemy extended
further as chemistry in rasa_yanam.
pot-able as in: Suffixed form *po_tlo-, drinking vessel. hibachi,
from Sanskrit ptram, cup, bowl. Its being a drink is a secondary
meaning, in my view.
In Old Tamil, there is another use of the word soma in the compound:
soma-man.al 'sand containing silver ore'.