Vedic Sanskrit words related to 'go' or cow-etymology and meanings
Sanskrit words related to 'cow' All words in Sanskrit are written in italics are itrans version and available in the Sanskrit English Lexicon by Sir Monier Williams at <http://www.sanskrit-lexicon.uni-koeln.de/monier/>. 1. go ( गो) --- Cow. (गो) . Cow. ( Cow seems to be from the expansion of the word go that expands as gau .) 2. go---- One w ho moves or goes----the sensory and other organs. 'go' is from the root word 'gam' which means 'to go'. ( go also means horse . idriaani hayani ahuH; viShyansteShu gocharan---- the organs are the horses and the objects are the routes in which the cows (horses) move (Kathopanishad). gocharan---means 'go + charan'----the trails along which the cows move.) 3. go = sensory and other organs. Thus in Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, the seer has explained the meaning of the word ' gaayatrI' as 'gayaM tatre' --who rescues the cows or the organs'----who takes our...