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etymology - "Sesha" & "kainkarya"

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tg_ramkumar • Fri Aug 16 2002 - 07:09:53 PDT 


SrI:

Looking for etymological clarification  for:

1) "Sesha"  (as in "bhagavat-Sesha" etc)
    Sort of know that "a-Sesha" means "all". 
    So does "Sesha" probably mean "part of whole"?

    [ I don't mean that brahman (=whole) is merely a totality of all 
     chetana and achetana put together.
     SrI rAmAnuja clearly says brahman is "sakhala-itara-vilakshaNa".
     ie the brahma-tattva is entirely different & distinct from
     the jIva & achetana tattva-s ! 
     viSishTAdvaita is about tattva-traya unlike 
     Sankara-advaita in which there is only brahma-tattva.
     
     ]
    

2) "kainkarya" (as "bhagavat-kainkarya" etc)
    Is it probably derived from "kim-kara" ?
   (literally meaning "what may I do?" or something?)


rAmAnuja-dAsa
//Ramkumar




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