Talk:Mahāvākyas

message: Why hasn't this been written in Devanagari on the article page? That is the generally accepted script for Sanskrit nowadays. --68.175.38.243 (talk) 16:30, 18 October 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I added some Devanagari at the top of the page, since I felt the same way. I would also add it to the title itself, so it would show after the Roman script, if I could figure out how to get at the title.Savitr108 (talk) 06:39, 17 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Devanagari

message: One other problem here: the word 'Mahāvākyas' has an Anglicized plural -- and Sanskrit does not make any plural on a noun by means of the 's' as word ending. In my opinion, the article title should be in the singular, viz., Mahāvākya. Note that the article's initial text now gives singular and plural (added by me; see above), which allows the article to begin with the Anglicized plural whether the word is either singular or plural in the title. I think it would work especially well if the article's title were in the singular.
I hope people see what I mean. It is a simple point, but grammar issues often look complicated, in writing, even when they are really simple in practice. Savitr108 (talk) 02:58, 17 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Plural

message: I also took the liberty of writing the four Mahāvākyani using IAST script (with diacritics) and removing the capitalization of word initials. Why? Well, IAST script seems to have become the main academic standard these days. And Sanskrit has no capitilization. Nor can I see any meaning conveyed by using caps even in the English versions -- but I left the English versions as is, with initial caps.Savitr108 (talk) 06:39, 17 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: IAST script and capitals

message: And finally, I just now deleted the two YouTube video clips previously in the 'External Links' section, for a simple reason: both video links brought up YouTube's "Video Removed By User" error message. They had become dead links.Savitr108 (talk) 19:49, 22 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: YouTube

message: I just now deleted some paragraphs that got added by someone, which appear to be in the nature of discussion (i.e., meant to go here) rather than meant for the article proper. I noted in the edit summary that the material involved 'original research,' in that it spoke from the personal experience of that editor.Savitr108 (talk) 19:53, 22 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Deletion of discussion

message: We had such a nice article on Mahavakyas and someone changed it into trash. Now I find it changed again to something better but the flavor of the old one does not exist. Bring the old one back. It was perfect. Aupmanyav (talk) 11:31, 26 January 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Done diff. Joshua Jonathan -Let's talk! 06:05, 6 July 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sorry to see the changes 

message: "Tat Tvam Asi," 'Such [thus] are you', and indeed: Brereton (1986) has an insightfull analysis on the translation and meaning of these three words, concluding that "That's how you are" is a better translation. Brereton does not stand isolated on this; Olivelle, among others, follows him. Joshua Jonathan -Let's talk! 14:09, 3 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  "That's how you are"  

message: The articles doesn’t mention the origin of the mahāvākyas i.e, who enumerated these four as Mahvakayas? Also need to add the relevance of these in the realm of Hindu philosophy. ChandlerMinh (talk) 12:28, 6 February 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: The later Advaita-tradition, and maybe as late as the 15th-16th century, I suspect. Joshua Jonathan -Let's talk! 13:41, 6 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Origin 

message: Article duplicates material in Mahāvākyas. There are four great Mahāvākyas in Hinduism, Ayam Atma Brahma is one and should not be treated in isolation from the Mahāvākyas page. Whiteguru (talk) 07:21, 23 May 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed merge of [[Ayam Atma Brahma]] into [[Mahāvākyas]] 

message: While referring to the Ultimate, shouldn’t “that’s the truth” be translated instead as “that’s what is true”? Otherwise it just seems like a categorial error between “true” and “truth”. 82.36.70.45 (talk) 19:46, 25 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Grammar