Aditya Narayan and his wife have named their daughter Twisha. He was quoted as saying “Twisha is a Sanskrit word. It means ‘Rays Of Light’. My father’s name Udit, my name Aditya and now my daughter Twisha are all light-related. A lot of thought has gone into the naam-karan.”

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This is almost correct. Sanskrit ‘tvisha’ (tviṣā, त्विषा) = “splendour, lustre, light”. It also means “she who shines, lustrous, brilliant”, which is the meaning when the word is used as a personal name. In the Hindu Purāṇas, Tviṣā is the daughter of Marīci and Sambhūti.

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Overall, it is a beautiful and well-thought name. I congratulate the parents for choosing this #sunāma.

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Dec 16, 2021
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What does it mean when elders bless us in Sanskrit as “āyuṣmān bhava” (आयुष्मान् भव, for a male) or “āyuṣmatī bhava” (आयुष्मती भव, for a female)?

The commonly understood meaning is “may you have a long life”.

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This is correct, for the primary meaning of ‘āyuṣmat’ (आयुष्मत्), from which ‘āyuṣmān’ and ‘āyuṣmatī’ are derived, is “long-lived” (Apte).

However, this is not the only meaning.

The suffix ‘-mat’ in ‘āyuṣmat’ also has the sense of praise.

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Hence, another meaning of “āyuṣmān bhava” or “āyuṣmatī bhava” is “may you have a praiseworthy (=noble) life”.

This meaning, “having a praiseworthy/noble life”, is not listed in Sanskrit dictionaries. However, it is as per the rules of Sanskrit grammar.

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Dec 13, 2021
‘काशी’ नाम का अर्थ

Meaning of the name ‘Kashi’

[Hindi video]

YouTube link: 

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Dec 6, 2021
Derivation and meaning of ‘nididhyāsana’

‘निदिध्यासन’ की व्युत्पत्ति और अर्थ

[Video in Hindi]

Full video link: 

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Nov 20, 2021
नूतनगृहप्रवेशकर्म।

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Nov 17, 2021
This thread is full of schoolboy errors. This is what happens when people who have no basic knowledge of Sanskrit grope in the dark and imagine meanings.

Let us see the blunders in this thread, one tweet at a time.

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Claim: "हन्यन्ते derives from हंत्व".

Truth: हन्यन्ते is a verbal conjugation: 3rd-person plural (प्रथमपुरुष-बहुवचन), present tense (लट् लकार), passive voice (कर्मणि प्रयोग), from √हन् = “to kill” and also “to strike” (Apte).

हन्यन्ते is not from हंत्व

हन्त्व is an adjective, from which one gets inflected forms like हन्त्वः हन्त्वौ हन्त्वाः. हन्यते is a conjugation, from root हन्, from which we get conjugations like हन्यते हन्येते हन्यन्ते in passive voice. Our scholar cannot tell a verbal conjugation from an inflected form!
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Nov 9, 2021
क्या ‘पति’ का अर्थ “स्वामी, मालिक” और ‘पत्नी’ का अर्थ “गुलाम, दासी” है?

क्या इसी कारण से हमारे देश में घरेलू हिंसा है?

“सत्यमेव जयते” कार्यक्रम पर कमला भसीन की निराधार और निरर्थक बातों का उत्तर।

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