Vedic Sanskrit words related to vision, time, motion, control
Vedic Sanskrit words related to vision, time, motion, control. The Sanskrit words written in italics are the intrans version of Devanagari words. These words are available in the Sanskrit English Lexicon by Sir Monier Williams at <http://www.sanskrit-lexicon.uni-koeln.de/monier/> (i) chakShu -- eye. Root word is chakSh meaning 'to see'. The word chakSh can be considered as made of two words (i) cha and (ii) kSha cha implies chamana meaning 'act of sipping'. (In Bengali / Bangla language, 'chakha' means 'to taste') kSha implies kShaNa meaning 'moment, time, manifestation with time' ; kSha also implies kSharaNa or decay or flow of time and successive unfolding of events. Thus ' chakShu' or eye is the center of 'manifestation' ( kSha) as well as the center of 'feeling' ( cha --- sipping). Consciousness manifests and feels what is manifested. This is the fundamental character of &