{"id":329,"date":"2005-05-17T12:21:09","date_gmt":"2005-05-17T06:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/2005\/05\/17\/sanskrit-names\/"},"modified":"2005-05-17T12:21:09","modified_gmt":"2005-05-17T06:51:09","slug":"sanskrit-names","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/classic\/200505\/sanskrit-names\/","title":{"rendered":"Sanskrit Names"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/indiauncut.blogspot.com\/2005\/05\/shreyaaaaa.html\">Amit Varma<\/a> posts about Sanskrit names. As I remember it, one oddity of Sanskrit grammer is that gender is determined by the form of the <i>word<\/i> rather than the sex of the person. What I mean is, the first part of my name &#8211; Ravi is supposed to be pronounced with a short i at the end. That makes it male. But if my mom had named me Raveeee, then you&#8217;d have to address me as female, even though to the best of my knowledge I&#8217;ve been male all my life. And remember Sanskrit has a neutral gender too. One of the words for &#8220;wife&#8221; in Sanskrit is <i>kalatram<\/i> which, because of its form (ending in &#8220;um&#8221; ) is neuter. So if refer to your wife as <i>kalatram,<\/i> you&#8217;d have to point to her as &#8220;it&#8221;. (Actually, there is a word in for wife which is <i>male<\/i> &#8211; I don&#8217;t remember it)<\/p>\n<p>More complications. How a noun ends in Sanskrit depends on the case. So if I am the object of a sentence (Amit shot Ravi) you&#8217;d have to call me <i>Ravim<\/i> (Amitaha shot Ravim.) In other words, google searches would become impossible in Sanskrit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amit Varma posts about Sanskrit names. As I remember it, one oddity of Sanskrit grammer is that gender is determined by the form of the word rather than the sex of the person. What I mean is, the first part of my name &#8211; Ravi is supposed to be pronounced with a short i at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}