Re: mang(w)a (was: Grie Ka #2)

> > http://www.xenafan.com/fiction/content/forant.html
Steg Belsky wrote:
> Although i'm not sure if i understood it correctly... in the part where
> Gabrielle and Xena are talking about the word "chakram", do they mean
> that it's pronounced [tSakram] in Sanskrit and [xakram] in Greek?  Is
> that supposed to be a borrowing, or cognates, or what?
It doesn't say what the Greek word for chakram is, because the story is
translated into English.

...
<cakra~> has a long entry in my Skt-Eng dictionary:

         1 The wheel of a carriage.
         2 A potter's wheel.
         3 A sharp circular missile weapon,
           a disc (especially applied to the weapon of Vishnu).
         4 An oil-mill.
         5 A circle, ring.
         6 A troop, multitude, collection.
         7 A realm, sovereignty.
         8 A province, district, a group of villages.
         9 A form of military array in a circle.
        10 A circle or depression of the body.
        11 A cycle, cycle of years.
        12 The horizon.
        13 An army, a host.
        14 Section of a book.
        15 A whirlpoor.  [sic]
        16 The winding of a river.

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