Saturday, May 11, 2019

Jñāna-Santatiṃ | "the flow of knowledge"

Jnana-Santatim

Jñāna-Santatiṃ (IAST)
Translation: "the flow of knowledge"
From Mandukya Upanishad (Verse 10)

A Sanskrit-English Dictionary (Monier-Williams)
Sanskrit: ज्ञान
Transliteration: Jñāna
Translation: "knowing, becoming acquainted with, knowledge, (esp.) the higher knowledge (derived from meditation on the one Universal Spirit)"
Sanskrit: संतति
Transliteration: Saṃ-tati
Translation: "stretching or extending along, expanse, continuity, uninterruptedness"

Mundaka and Mandukya Upanishads (Swami Sharvananda)
Sanskrit: ज्ञानसन्ततिं
Transliteration: Jñāna-Santatiṃ
Translation: "the flow of knowledge or thought"


References:
  1. Monier-Williams, Monier (1899). A Sanskrit-English Dictionary: Etymologically and Philologically Arranged with Special Reference to Cognate Indo-European languages. Oxford: Clarendon Press
  2. Sharvananda, Swami (1920). Mundaka and Mandukya Upanishads: With Sanskrit Text; Paraphrase with Word-For-Word Literal Translation, English, Rendering and Comments. Mylapore, Madras: Sri Ramakrishna Math