Timeline for Why do some English-language texts refer to the Buddha as "Lord"?
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| Jul 19, 2020 at 1:55 | comment | added | little star | Bhagavan same as bhagavā right, means the blessed one? dhammassāmī is Lord so sound wrong mapping of word in English? | |
| Jul 17, 2020 at 11:53 | comment | added | ChrisW♦ | Your mentioning "[plural] you" sounds like the T–V distinction, which seems to exist in a lot of modern languages except not English, and in Sanskrit. | |
| Jul 17, 2020 at 11:46 | comment | added | Andriy Volkov♦ | Wanna write your own answer? ;) | |
| Jul 17, 2020 at 11:41 | comment | added | User6670 | In the Sanskrit Rigveda, bhaga is an epithet of both mortals and gods (e.g. of Savitr, Indra and Agni) who bestow wealth and prosperity also from wiki | |
| Jul 17, 2020 at 11:39 | comment | added | User6670 | "wealth" and "wealthy" seem pretty different to me | |
| Jul 17, 2020 at 11:34 | comment | added | Andriy Volkov♦ | From Wikipedia: Etymology: Bhagavān ... from the noun bhaga, meaning "fortune", "wealth", cognate to Polish bogaty Serbo-Croatian bogat, Russian bogatyj "wealthy". Bill Gates is wealthy, do you need a reference for that? | |
| Jul 17, 2020 at 11:30 | comment | added | User6670 | i was just giving the reference may be you can give the reference where you read how president and bill gates relate to "bhagwan".also from what i see on searching "bhaga-" means "lord, patron, sharer/distributor of wealth, prosperity" not "owner" | |
| Jul 17, 2020 at 11:11 | comment | added | Andriy Volkov♦ | Etymologically "bha-" or "bhaga-" has connotations of multiplicity and wealth. Bill Gates and President are examples of being rich and important correspondingly. If I were to copy Wikipedia this site would be redundant. | |
| Jul 17, 2020 at 8:06 | comment | added | User6670 | how exactly bhagavan means rich or important? and how exactly does it relates to bill gates or president? even if you look up on wikipedia there is no such relationship. | |
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| Jul 16, 2020 at 17:33 | history | answered | Andriy Volkov♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |