Re: Oka Prasna
D. Sreenivasa Rao (dsr@VNET.IBM.COM)
Thu, 24 Jul 97 15:03:13 -0400
:>> "gRhasthuDu" may mean something close to "host", but is probably not
:>> politically acceptable, disenfranchising 51% of the population and
:>> that sort of thing. In a technical sense, "yajamAni" has similar meaning,
:>> and pejorative connotations.
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:>Any translation has to sustain the symmetry--nIvu naa atithvi; nEnu nI ???.
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:>Bapa Rao
I don't understand. Isn't aathithEyuDu an accepted word for 'host'?
I don't have a reference off-hand, but I remember reading it in more
than one place. So the above sentence could be easily filled in
as nIvu naa atithvi; nEnu nI aathithEyuDini.
--sreenivas-- dsr@vnet.ibm.com