03-27-2009, 05:34 PM
<!--QuoteBegin-Husky+Mar 27 2009, 02:53 AM-->QUOTE(Husky @ Mar 27 2009, 02:53 AM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->The only one I imagine I am certain of is Kashmira being Uma's name and being named for her.
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kAshmIra is generally believed to be contraction of kAshyapa-mIra. It is masculine as the place name and not a name of the devI umA. The devI umA might be secondarily called kAshmIrA or kAshmIrjA because of 1) her identification with vitastA in the Kashmirian epic cycle or 2) origins in the himAlaya as pArvatI.
Some others state kAshmIra might be contraction of kashyapa-meru. The word is attested relatively late in Sanskrit suggesting that such a Prakritic contraction is a possibility. We do not find the older form as kashyapa-mIra/meru in the vedic language, even though the land was well known to and ruled by the Arya-s (see the nadistuti). This is a bit puzzling making me wonder if kAshmIra could be derived from a substratum language.
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kAshmIra is generally believed to be contraction of kAshyapa-mIra. It is masculine as the place name and not a name of the devI umA. The devI umA might be secondarily called kAshmIrA or kAshmIrjA because of 1) her identification with vitastA in the Kashmirian epic cycle or 2) origins in the himAlaya as pArvatI.
Some others state kAshmIra might be contraction of kashyapa-meru. The word is attested relatively late in Sanskrit suggesting that such a Prakritic contraction is a possibility. We do not find the older form as kashyapa-mIra/meru in the vedic language, even though the land was well known to and ruled by the Arya-s (see the nadistuti). This is a bit puzzling making me wonder if kAshmIra could be derived from a substratum language.