Thursday, May 9, 2019

Ca | "and"

Cha

Ca (IAST)
Translation: "and"
From Mandukya Upanishad (Verses 1, 8, 9, 10, 11)

A Sanskrit-English Dictionary (Monier-Williams)
Sanskrit: च
Transliteration: Ca
Translation:
  1. the 20th letter of the alphabet, 1st of the 2nd (or palatal) class of consonants, having the sound of ch in church.
  2. and, both, also, moreover, as well as


Reference:
  1. Monier-Williams, Monier (1899). A Sanskrit-English Dictionary: Etymologically and Philologically Arranged with Special Reference to Cognate Indo-European languages. Oxford: Clarendon Press