Guest guest Report post Posted February 7, 2002 How is the word zramaNa usually explained? Is zrama an IE word, or at least Indo-Iranian? Or, is zrama(Na) a local word entering IA languages? Thanks, N. Ganesan Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest guest Report post Posted February 12, 2002 INDOLOGY, "naga_ganesan" <naga_ganesan@h...> wrote: > > How is the word zramaNa usually explained? > Is zrama an IE word, or at least Indo-Iranian? > Or, is zrama(Na) a local word entering IA languages? > > Thanks, > N. Ganesan >>>>>>>>> Way back in the 60's Mircea Eliade tried to explain, "shaman" as having entered our European lexicons by way of Russian, but only subsequently as received from the language of the Tungus, a Mongolian people widely spread across Eastern Siberia. Important associations with the word were supposed to be derived from the Aryan languages, and in this way Eliade tried to connect it to the Sanskrit zraamaNa and the movement of ascetic wanders that developed in India from the 6th century BCE. See Mircea Eliade, _Shamanism, Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy_ (1964), 311-41. Best regards, Troy Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
