Guest guest Posted April 27, 2004 Report Share Posted April 27, 2004 It's the passive of the causative of bhU: he/she/it is caused to be/brought into being. Valerie J Roebuck Manchester, UK At 2:14 pm -0400 27/4/04, Harry Spier wrote: >Dear list members, > >I've come across the verbal form bhAvyate . Can someone explain the >formation and give its meaning. I see it listed in Whitney's roots under bhU >in secondary conjugations but in parenthesis. Is it a passive form of bhU ? >A denominative form? -- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 27, 2004 Report Share Posted April 27, 2004 It is the passive of bhAvayati, yes, but bhAvayati is used in various meanings such as to meditate upon, to be devoted to etc., e.g. bhAvayAmi raghurAmam, the famous Karnatak music vocal. So check the context of bhAvyate to see what meaning is appropriate. 'To bring into being' is the literal base meaning, but there are numerous extended meanings. Madhav Deshpande INDOLOGY, Valerie J Roebuck <vjroebuck@m...> wrote: > It's the passive of the causative of bhU: he/she/it is caused to > be/brought into being. > > Valerie J Roebuck > Manchester, UK > > At 2:14 pm -0400 27/4/04, Harry Spier wrote: > >Dear list members, > > > >I've come across the verbal form bhAvyate . Can someone explain the > >formation and give its meaning. I see it listed in Whitney's roots under bhU > >in secondary conjugations but in parenthesis. Is it a passive form of bhU ? > >A denominative form? > -- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 28, 2004 Report Share Posted April 28, 2004 Quoting deshpandem <mmdesh: > It is the passive of bhAvayati, yes, but bhAvayati is used in various > meanings such as to meditate upon, to be devoted to etc., e.g. > bhAvayAmi raghurAmam, the famous Karnatak music vocal. How does this form come to mean to meditate and to be devoted to? Is the idea that one creates, mentally, the object of meditation or the istadevata in the form of an image? Phillip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 29, 2004 Report Share Posted April 29, 2004 This meaning of bhAvayati (Pali: bhAveti) 'to meditate, to mentally cultivate something or other' is very old, certainly found in the Pali tripitaka, perhaps beginning with '(mentally) bringing about'. Madhav Deshpande INDOLOGY, Phillip Ernest <phillip.ernest@u...> wrote: > Quoting deshpandem <mmdesh@U...>: > > > It is the passive of bhAvayati, yes, but bhAvayati is used in various > > meanings such as to meditate upon, to be devoted to etc., e.g. > > bhAvayAmi raghurAmam, the famous Karnatak music vocal. > > How does this form come to mean to meditate and to be devoted to? Is the idea > that one creates, mentally, the object of meditation or the istadevata in the > form of an image? > > Phillip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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