3 ms·
> Chandrayaan, which means “moon vehicle” in Sanskrit Doesn't Chandrayaan mean a journey to the moon?
by varshithr 7y ago
> Chandrayaan, which means “moon vehicle” in Sanskrit
Doesn't Chandrayaan mean a journey to the moon?
- spdebbarma 7y ago"Chandra" [चन्द्र] is one of the Hindi/Sanskrit words for the Moon. Other examples are chaand and chandni. "Yaan" [यान] means vehicle/coach.
- gingabriska 7y agoChandrayatra means journey to moon.
- deleted 7y ago[deleted]
- ngkabra 7y agoThat would be Chandraayan: moon + journey/path. Chandrayaan is moon + vehicle.
- sn41 7y agoChandraayana would mean "Journey by/to the moon" as in Ramayana or Uttarayana. Chandrayaana means moon vehicle. The thing that annoys me is that ISRO uses Hindi naming convention rather than the Sanskrit. Visarga is a thing.