From: viswanath@draco.rutgers.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: Re : The World and Saunskrut
Date: 16 Apr 92 20:00:53 GMT
Organization: Rutgers University RUCS-Newark

In article <1992Apr10.145309.16105@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca>, f0g1@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca (Prasad Gokhale) writes:
> From: podurys@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Podury Satyanarayan)
> Subject: The World and Sanskrit (Re: On the existence of Paramatma)
> 
> Podury Satyanarayan writes :
> ----------------------------
> On a(n) (un)related note:
> 
> Jesus:  "isha", meaning God in Sanskrit.  I believe, in Germany, the letter
>          'J' is pronounced as 'I'.  So, 'Jesus' would be pronounced as
>          'Isus'.  The similarity is apparent.  (Any knowledgeable netter out
>           there who could throw more light on this?)
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>      Jesus Christ is (probably) an alt-pronounciation of Iesus Krishna.


> Also, is there a word 'brua', or 'bhruva' in Sanskrit?  I believe it
> means 'language', or some similar meaning.  If it does, then there is
> another interesting word-derivation.  The word 'hebrew' means 'shiva brua',
> or 'shiva's language'.  Now, I was told by this philosopher (indian), that
> Jewism is basically a religion following a reincarnation of Shiva.  In the

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>      Here is one more interesting derivation. Hebrew could be broken
>      as Heri-brew. Bruva in Saunskrut signifies speech and the first
>      syllable in Hebrew, i.e., 'He' is an abbreviation of the divine
>      name (Encyclopedia Judaica). Hence the term Hebrew signifies a
>      divine language, i.e., language of Lord Hari alias Lord Krishna.

C'mon guys, don't get carried away.  Take the time to look up
some basic linguistics before you write down all your (farfetched)
hypotheses.  Keep in mind that by positing an arbitrary number of
unverified facts (assumptions), you can support any hypothesis at
all.

Hebrew and Arabic are semitic languages.  They do not have any
relationship with English, Sanskrit, etc;  You can't take a 
Hebrew word (especially as it is spelt in English) and derive a
Sanskrit word from that (or vice-versa).  Jesus is from a Hebrew
word that is pronounced (more or less) Yeshua

The word Hebrew is from a semitic root (avar=to pass over).  In
any case, it is written ivri (you can't get 'he' from it, unless
you do a lot of hera-pheri).  Actually, it's a little more
complicated--the first consonant in 'ivri' is actually a guttural,
sort of like the "'" in ma'lum=know in Urdu (assuming you know how
ma'lum is spelt in Urdu/Arabic.

Finally, what sort of junk is this, declaring that Judaism is a
religion following a reincarnation of Shiva?  Who is this 
philosopher (sic) and where did he get his facts?  There is no
mention of Shiva anywhere in the Hebrew scriptures or in other
Jewish holy books.  There are no lingams used by Jews anywhere.

Read up a little bit on historical linguistics first--any elementary
textbook will do (a suggestion is the book by Raimon Anttila).  Also
if you're going to cite the Encyclopaedia Judaica, look up other
things there, too, not just stuff to support the particular minor 
point that you want to state.

P.V. Viswanath