Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Feb 14, 2017 16:54
7 yrs ago
English term
Destri
English to Hindi
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Hinduism
Hi
How do you write 'Destri' in Hindi, please? I mean the form of Saraswati (goddess of learning) associated with easy
birth.
Best
Simon
How do you write 'Destri' in Hindi, please? I mean the form of Saraswati (goddess of learning) associated with easy
birth.
Best
Simon
Proposed translations
(Hindi)
| 4 +4 | देष्ट्री |
Lalit Sati
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| 5 | देस्त्री |
Kamta Prasad
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| 1 | देश्त्री |
acetran
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Lalit Sati
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देष्ट्री
समञ्जन्तु विश्वे देवाः समापो हृदयानि नौ । सं मातरिश्वा सं धाता समु देष्ट्री दधातु नौ ॥४७॥
अनुवाद: जल, वायु, ब्रह्मा, सरस्वती हम दोनों को एक करें l सभी देवता हमें समान प्रीती वाले बनावें l
(https://sa.wikisource.org/wiki/सम्भाषणम्:ऋग्वेद:_सूक्तं_१०.८...
10.085.47 (Mandala. Sukta. Rik)
सम॑ञ्जन्तु॒ विश्वे॑ दे॒वाः समापो॒ हृद॑यानि नौ ।
सं मा॑त॒रिश्वा॒ सं धा॒ता समु॒ देष्ट्री दधातु नौ ॥
sam ǀ añjantu ǀ viśve ǀ devāḥ ǀ sam ǀ āpaḥ ǀ hṛdayāni ǀ nau ǀ
sam ǀ mātariśvā ǀ sam ǀ dhātā ǀ sam ǀ ūṃ iti ǀ deṣṭrī ǀ dadhātu ǀ nau ǁ
(http://www.aurobindo.ru/workings/matherials/rigveda/10/10-08...
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Note added at 58 mins (2017-02-14 17:53:23 GMT)
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So may the Universal Gods, so may the Waters join our hearts.
May Matarisvan, Dhatar, and Destri together bind us close.
Peer comment(s):
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Piyush Ojha
: Absolutely. This wedding hymn (विवाह सूक्त) is the correct source.
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Harishankar Shahi
: This is the actual word. And it denotes visible knowledge.
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acetran
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शुक्रिया
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Ashutosh Mitra
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शुक्रिया
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Comment: "Many thanks, excellent!"
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Kamta Prasad
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देस्त्री
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देश्त्री
This is taken from Amrutur V. Srinivasan's book "Hinduism for Dummies."
https://books.google.co.in/books?id=br61gYKt5Q0C&pg=PT166&lp...
It is in all probability written as देश्त्री.
A Google search of this word yields to this link of Skanda Purana, titled after Skanda, a son of Shiva and Parvati.
http://hindureligion1.weebly.com/uploads/9/0/4/5/90454029/sa...
No other possible words seem to exist.
https://books.google.co.in/books?id=br61gYKt5Q0C&pg=PT166&lp...
It is in all probability written as देश्त्री.
A Google search of this word yields to this link of Skanda Purana, titled after Skanda, a son of Shiva and Parvati.
http://hindureligion1.weebly.com/uploads/9/0/4/5/90454029/sa...
No other possible words seem to exist.
Discussion
https://books.google.co.in/books?id=nqiFF0c6SwoC&pg=PA173&lp...
Let all the gods and waters together anoint our two hearts together. Let Matarisvan [sorry, can't do diacritics] tgether with the Creator and together with her who shows the way join the two of us together.
In this translation देष्ट्री = she who shows the way.
Wendy Doniger also adds a footnote: An unknown goddess, perhaps responsible for showing the bride the way to her husband's home and heart. Cf. Atharva Veda 11.4.12.
Monier-Williams defines a cognate word as 'pointer, indicator' and देष्ट्री simply as 'a divine female'.
http://www.sanskrit-lexicon.uni-koeln.de/scans/MWScan/2014/w...
In my understanding of Wendy Doniger's translation, देष्ट्री is related to दृष्टि. The Hinduism for Dummies link given by acetran has the meaning given by the asker but I'd like to see a more scholarly source for that meaning.