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> Vikramshila I saw this spelling somewhere before - why do some people use it instead of the more official Vikramashila (Vikramaśilā)?
by dvfjsdhgfv 2y ago
> Vikramshila
I saw this spelling somewhere before - why do some people use it instead of the more official Vikramashila (Vikramaśilā)?
- akprasad 2y agoIn Hindi and some other Indian languages, it is common to drop the last short “a” of a Sanskrit word, hence Ram for Rama, Vikram for Vikrama, etc.
- deleted 2y ago[deleted]
- ppterodactyl 2y agoHindi pronunciation of Sanskrit words makes it so (what's called schwa deletion).
- sachkris 2y agoAlso, Taxila/Takshila here in Sanskrit is तक्षशिला (takṣaśilā).
- ummonk 2y agoBecause North Indians drop the trailing schwa (including in parts of compound woods). Annoyingly enough, a lot of them will insist you’re pronouncing it “wrong” if you don’t drop the schwa in your own pronunciation.
- tdeck 2y agoThis explains why I had an Indian colleague whose name ended in an "a" that he didn't pronounce. I always wondered why romanize it with a silent letter.