Re: Oka Prasna

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Srikanth said:

>I am most likely wrong, but the meaning of atithi I heard is exactly opposite:
>"a-tithi" - "tithi nakshatramu lEkuDaa vacchu vADu"

No, you may be right. Padma, checking her sanskrit dictionary, said the same
thing. Stay tuned.

As far as the original question, the word for 'host' is being elusive.
'gRhasthuDu', 'gRhasthu' seem to be the closest, single words. BTW, the
vikRti form of that word, 'gEstu' sounds so much like 'guest'! One of those
coincidences, even if the two words mean completely opposite things.

Perhaps 'atithi' may mean both ""tithi nakshatramu lEkunDaa vacchu vADu",
AND "one who is expected", both being not mutually exclusive. 

The more we try to know, the less we know. Or the more we know that there 
is much more to be known. Ignorance is bliss. One of those truisms.

Ramakrishna "tithee, nakshatramU lEni rOju asalu unTundA!" Pillalamarri

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