Hindi to English translations [PRO]
Social Sciences - Geography | | Hindi term or phrase: Tirhut | I am a non-Hindi speaker translating a German travel book into English, and have run across several instances already where the German translations the author offers simply don't capture the meaning of the Hindi (or Sanskrit, or Bengali...).
In this instance I would like to know the original meaning of the toponym Tirhut for the district in Bihar; my author offers "the land of herdsmen" but I feel the need to check this. |
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| | English translation:Tirhut is derived from the word Tribhukta | Explanation:
Tirhut is derived from the word Tribhukta i.e. the country on the bank of the river. Some writters argues that the ancient kingdom of Videha in Mithila ....
(www.hseb.edu.np/content/.../teachingmannualhistoryxi.pdf )
Maithili is an Indo-Aryan language that is spoken by the people of North- Eastern Bihar and Nepal. The language has been named Maithili because it is spoken in the ancient land of Mithila. It is also called Tirhutia because Tirhut is another name of the same region, which is derived from Tirabhukti, which means the bank of the river purified thrice by the sacrifices. An Italian scholar named Amaduzzi in his book Alphabetum Brahmmanicum (1771A.D.) has mentioned this language as Maitili.
(http://www.mithilaonline.com/maithili.html)
Tirabhukti is so called because it is regard as a land of three mythical sacrifices performed at the birth place of Sita, it extends up to the Tira or the bank of the Ganga, so it is called Tirabhuhti,two sides of the river Kausiki (the Kosi).
(http://maithiliakademi.wordpress.com/videha-mithila-tirbhukt...
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Note added at 2 hrs (2010-10-12 09:55:35 GMT)
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right word - Tirabhukti |
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 Lalit Sati
India
Local time: 07:49
| Grading comment So it seems that "land of cattlemen" is a folk etymology - a possible meaning for the word, but not its original derivation.
2 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer |
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2 hrs confidence: peer agreement (net): +2 Tirhut is derived from the word Tribhukta
Explanation:
Tirhut is derived from the word Tribhukta i.e. the country on the bank of the river. Some writters argues that the ancient kingdom of Videha in Mithila ....
(www.hseb.edu.np/content/.../teachingmannualhistoryxi.pdf )
Maithili is an Indo-Aryan language that is spoken by the people of North- Eastern Bihar and Nepal. The language has been named Maithili because it is spoken in the ancient land of Mithila. It is also called Tirhutia because Tirhut is another name of the same region, which is derived from Tirabhukti, which means the bank of the river purified thrice by the sacrifices. An Italian scholar named Amaduzzi in his book Alphabetum Brahmmanicum (1771A.D.) has mentioned this language as Maitili.
(http://www.mithilaonline.com/maithili.html)
Tirabhukti is so called because it is regard as a land of three mythical sacrifices performed at the birth place of Sita, it extends up to the Tira or the bank of the Ganga, so it is called Tirabhuhti,two sides of the river Kausiki (the Kosi).
(http://maithiliakademi.wordpress.com/videha-mithila-tirbhukt...
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Note added at 2 hrs (2010-10-12 09:55:35 GMT)
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right word - Tirabhukti
| Lalit Sati
India
Local time: 07:49
Native speaker of:  Hindi
PRO pts in category: 2
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| | Grading comment | So it seems that "land of cattlemen" is a folk etymology - a possible meaning for the word, but not its original derivation. |
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