What do you call a person who speaks two languages? Bilingual.
What do you call a person who speaks many languages? Polylingual.
What do you call a person that only speaks one language? An American.
For any other Americans who, such as myself, find their linguistic abilities somewhat limited to say the least, that have a few minutes to spare and wants to read the Mahabharata of Vyasa, an English translation of all 5.818 pages is available for download at https://www.holybooks.com/the-mahabharata-of-vyasa-english-prose-translation
Interesting Json. I read your Jatasura Vadha Chapter 1 & then read Ganguli's prose of the same.
Twix the two gained a good sense of the storyline. However, in my opinion, unless one knows, the 9,999 names of Hindi gods and heroes, as well as the 9.999 names of each and every reincarnation of the 9,999 gods & heroes, a noaccount country boy like me needs a bit of help from a present reincarnation of the goddess of victory to be able to tell all the players without a score card!
& parenthetical aside; (I did wander off on a tangent and found Jayshee means G'ss. of V.), grin.
Lol. That is correct with one more note - Jay or Jaya = victory; Shree = wealth. So it means both victory and wealth and is also one of the many names of the Goddess of Wealth! Good one, Jim! I do appreciate the reminder to keep striving for both! ;-)
Sigh, coincidence, serendipity, damnedifIknow, or whatever; after reading your comment, before deciding to sleep, right around midnight I took a look at one last random section of the translation of Mahabharata. Such happened to be BOOK 4
VIRATA PARVA, Section one, the first sentence; "OM! Having bowed down to Narayana, and Nara, the most exalted of male beings, and also to the
goddess Saraswati, must the word Jaya be uttered."
We live in a rational, reasonable world wherein everything is logical and explainable, except when it isn't.
What do you call a person who speaks two languages? Bilingual.
What do you call a person who speaks many languages? Polylingual.
What do you call a person that only speaks one language? An American.
For any other Americans who, such as myself, find their linguistic abilities somewhat limited to say the least, that have a few minutes to spare and wants to read the Mahabharata of Vyasa, an English translation of all 5.818 pages is available for download at https://www.holybooks.com/the-mahabharata-of-vyasa-english-prose-translation
hi. i am glad to see interest in the mhb and Sanskrit!
my substack is dedicated to publishing a new translation of the Mahabharata in verse rhyme. check it out may be interest.
Interesting Json. I read your Jatasura Vadha Chapter 1 & then read Ganguli's prose of the same.
Twix the two gained a good sense of the storyline. However, in my opinion, unless one knows, the 9,999 names of Hindi gods and heroes, as well as the 9.999 names of each and every reincarnation of the 9,999 gods & heroes, a noaccount country boy like me needs a bit of help from a present reincarnation of the goddess of victory to be able to tell all the players without a score card!
& parenthetical aside; (I did wander off on a tangent and found Jayshee means G'ss. of V.), grin.
Lol. That is correct with one more note - Jay or Jaya = victory; Shree = wealth. So it means both victory and wealth and is also one of the many names of the Goddess of Wealth! Good one, Jim! I do appreciate the reminder to keep striving for both! ;-)
Sigh, coincidence, serendipity, damnedifIknow, or whatever; after reading your comment, before deciding to sleep, right around midnight I took a look at one last random section of the translation of Mahabharata. Such happened to be BOOK 4
VIRATA PARVA, Section one, the first sentence; "OM! Having bowed down to Narayana, and Nara, the most exalted of male beings, and also to the
goddess Saraswati, must the word Jaya be uttered."
We live in a rational, reasonable world wherein everything is logical and explainable, except when it isn't.
Goodnight all Jayas, wherever you are!
Lol, fun share!
This is wonderful Jayshree. I love reading your stories about the Gods and Goddesses. I love mythology.
Thanks Pamela, the stories are fun to relate too.
Congratulations on 100 articles! I really liked this one. I had heard of Ganesha many times but somehow never heard how he came to be! Thank you!
Thanks Doug, there are other versions of his birth, but this is the most widely accepted.
Ahhh, again such beautiful stories, thank you, Jayshree 💙🙏💫
Thank you.