Hindi/Sanskrit

[Hjorimir]

Does anybody here speak Sanskrit or Hindi? Or, can anybody recommend an online resource that is pretty good with translations?

I'd like the following translated:

Blind Mendicants
Purifying Flame
Sun's Path
Darkened Penitents

I want to use Taiia from the Deitys & Demigods for an Indian-themed area of my campaign world and the names above are sects of her faith.

Anyway, if nothing else, thank you for reading.

 

[talinthas]

Blind Mendicants
Purifying Flame
Sun's Path
Darkened Penitents

This is harder than it looks because the adjective and the plural forms work differently in hindi than in english, but i'll give it a shot.

blind mendicants- andh sanyassi (note that this is a singular)
Purifying flame- pavitrata ki jvala (lit- the flame of purity)
Sun's path- Surya ki Rastha
Darkened Penitents- hmm. just like the word mendicant, penitent doesn't exist in hindi, as the concept doesnt exist. perhaps you'd be better sticking to the english terms?

 

[Hjorimir]

Thank you, talinthas.

Hey, did you ever finish your Upanishads d20 idea?

Also, is there an easy way to pluralize a word (such as andh sanyassi)?

 

[talinthas]

finish? i've only just started it =)
it's very complex, and i want to do it right =)

and no, there really isnt an easy way to pluralise. it's very dependant on word gender and if the word is a sanskrit loan word or a native hindi word. in this example, it would be andh sanyassio.

 

[Greylock]

I think I got this link right here at ENW...

http://dsal.uchicago.edu/dictionaries/platts/

HTH

 

[Brennin Magalus]

Does anybody here speak Sanskrit or Hindi? Or, can anybody recommend an online resource that is pretty good with translations?

I'd like the following translated:

Blind Mendicants
Purifying Flame
Sun's Path
Darkened Penitents

I want to use Taiia from the Deitys & Demigods for an Indian-themed area of my campaign world and the names above are sects of her faith.

Anyway, if nothing else, thank you for reading.

You might want to consider the word "bhakta," which denotes a religious devotee.

 

[talinthas]

yeah, i was thinking that, or satsangi, or a handful of other terms. the problem is that hinduism really doesnt have the sin-redemption idea, so penitance is lost to the language =)

 

[Brennin Magalus]

yeah, i was thinking that, or satsangi, or a handful of other terms. the problem is that hinduism really doesnt have the sin-redemption idea, so penitance is lost to the language =)

If I ever get my game off the ground I was thinking of introducing a paladin from the far away land of Bharat who refers to himself as a Bhakta.

 

[Hjorimir]

Thanks for all the help, guys. Somebody needs to put out a nice India d20 supplement. The more I read about the land and its history the more fascinating it becomes.

Does anybody have anything they've written for their own personal use? Does anybody care to share it?

 

[Nisarg]

yeah, i was thinking that, or satsangi, or a handful of other terms. the problem is that hinduism really doesnt have the sin-redemption idea, so penitance is lost to the language =)

Depends; hinduism is so HUGE as a religion you can find just about anything in it. Certainly the vaisnavas in their most extreme forms (ie. Hare Krishnas) have such a concept of Karma (and of the sole karma-clearing grace of the hare krishna mantra) as to very closely approximating sin/redemption.

Nevertheless I would add to the chorus of people saying that terms like "bhakta" (devottee) and "Sannyasin" (renunciate) would be appropriate.

For "purifying flame" you could use Nataraj, which literally translated means "royal dance"; but its a title of a form of Shiva associated with dancing flames.

Nisarg