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Vedic Sanskrit words related to 'water---etymology and meanings

Vedic Sanskrit words related to 'water'. All Sanskrit words written in italics are itrans version. Most of these words are available in Sanskrit English Lexicon by Sir Monier Williams at < http://www.sanskrit-lexicon.uni-koeln.de/monier/>. (i) ap-- Water. Water is the personality of Universal Consciousness who removes 'any obsession or confinement'. This is 'fluidity'. The connected word 'apanayana' means 'to remove'. This is also reflected in the 'flowing rivers'. (ii) aapa-- Water, Obtaining. (iii) aap---- To gain or obtain. The feeling of gaining and the consequent satisfaction is from the 'inner water'. It quenches our desire and thirst. (vii) aapti-- Achievement, gain. (viii) payasa-- Water or more correctly from where water originates. payasa is from the root word 'pay' meaning 'to move, to flow'. It is the movement of the Consciousness or praaNa that creates the 'life giving&

Vedic Sanskrit words related to 'vaayu' or the Air

Vedic Sanskrit words related to air or god of air 'vaayu'. ( Sanskrit   words are written in italics and are 'itrans' version. These words can be found in Sanskrit English Lexicon by Sir Monier Williams at < http://www.sanskrit-lexicon.uni-koeln.de/monier/> (i) vaayu--- air.  vaayu is from the root word ' vaa' which means to  weave. It means that aspect of Universal Consciousness by which  the elements or the entities of the universe are connected among  each other in a mesh or network. (ii) marut--- God of wind. marut---ma ( mRityu = death, mortality) + ut (up, to go up, to go  beyond, surpass)----who has gone beyond the death or mortality.  marut-sakha-indra: sakha--- friend;   marut-sakha-indra---indra who has befriended marut to get over the death or mortality. sakha---sa (same) + kha (sky, space) --- who share the same (inner) sky. (iii) sUtraatman---sUtraa (thread) + aatman (soul)---the thread that connects everyone.  s