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Parthasarati Dileepan
• Thu Oct 26 1995 - 06:19:34 PDT
On Wed, 25 Oct 1995 14:59:09 -0500 K. Srinivasan said:
>
[ .. snip .. ]
>In fact, even "kO dhai" is "kO" (God in Tamil) + "dhai" (from Tamil "thaa" give
>or Sanskrit "dhattha" give)
>
>Thus Andal "kOdhai" is "the one given by the God" and not "given by Cow".
>Just like "kO il" is not "gO il" (which will be a cow shelter).
>
>Unfortunately, the "majority" will say "Go dhai" and derive it from "Sacred
>Cow"
>in Sanskrit.
The Sanskrit thaniyan for Thiruppaavai by Sriman Naadhamuni
says "gOdhaa," not "kOdhaa." Both "gOdhaa" and "kOdhaa"
will be written the same way in Tamil, but differently
in Sanskrit. This makes me assume that the Sanskrit
version, i.e. "gOdhaa" is correct. Further, I am not
sure whether "gOdhaa" is "given by cow".
-- Dileepan
