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Ancient sanskrit, yes. But the term vitanDa is very current. It is a common word in my language, Kannada and I imagine in other Indian languages as well. This
by shas3 8y ago
Ancient sanskrit, yes. But the term vitanDa is very current. It is a common word in my language, Kannada and I imagine in other Indian languages as well.
This article is as much about the etymology of a modern term as about a concept from Sanskrit philosophical texts.
- m33k44 8y agoIndian languages are heavily influenced by Samskrutam and have borrowed words from the language. So the word vitanDa in Kannada is borrowed from Samskrut language.
- QuercusMax 8y agoWhat does vitanDa mean in Kannada? Google hasn't been much help.
- nitheshm 8y agoIn Telugu, I use vitanda vadam to mean something closer to a rhetorical fallacy than deliberate dishonesty.
- grey-sunshine 8y agoIn Tamil it means speech that leads no where. In the sense of debating but not useful.
- danans 8y ago"The Notion of Trolling in Ancient Indian Literature" may have been a better choice of title. Of course it was in Sanskrit, because that was the literary language of the time. But this is probably named this way because the names of Ancient Indian works of literature, especially obscure ones like Nyaya Sutra, are not well known in the west, whereas "Sanskrit" almost immediately contextualizes the post to Ancient South Asia for most readers, even though the language in which it is composed is a bit beside the point, which is that an ancient society sort of identified "trolling".
- ensconced 8y agoTelugu too! It's called "vitanDa vaadam"
- ultrasounder 8y agoWhich is a direct translation of the same word from Sanskrit which carries the same meaning. Hardly surprising as Telugu is at lest 50% Sanskrit