03-05-2008, 12:45 AM
<!--QuoteBegin-Bodhi+Mar 4 2008, 08:39 PM-->QUOTE(Bodhi @ Mar 4 2008, 08:39 PM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->Medvedev is Madhu Vedi in Sanskrit!
PTI | Moscow
Russian President-elect Dmitry Medvedev apparently shares an India link unknown to many. The 42-year-old successor of Vladimir Putin has a surname which can trace its origin to Sanskrit.Â
Medvedev is derived from 'medved', the Russian word for bear.
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Medved is much more convincingly derived from "madhu-vid" which means "knower of Honey" and makes more sense as a term for a bear.
"Madhu-Vedi" can mean, with a stretch, someone associated with a branch of knowlede or veda called "Madhuveda" just as you have dvivedi, trivedi etc. But it is much more convoluted than a simple "madhu-vid". Other meaning can be had by the term "vedi" meaning a place for some religious rites, but then it doesn't make sense.
Although, there is a "vidyA" in the veda called "madhu-vidyA", using which a person aspires to make everything in his life sweet. Look for madhu-sUktam in the rigveda. But again this vidyA doesn't have much to do with bears.
But I guess a Russian name is much more likely to be associated with bears, than a spiritual vidyA to make everything in one's life sweet.
PTI | Moscow
Russian President-elect Dmitry Medvedev apparently shares an India link unknown to many. The 42-year-old successor of Vladimir Putin has a surname which can trace its origin to Sanskrit.Â
Medvedev is derived from 'medved', the Russian word for bear.
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Medved is much more convincingly derived from "madhu-vid" which means "knower of Honey" and makes more sense as a term for a bear.
"Madhu-Vedi" can mean, with a stretch, someone associated with a branch of knowlede or veda called "Madhuveda" just as you have dvivedi, trivedi etc. But it is much more convoluted than a simple "madhu-vid". Other meaning can be had by the term "vedi" meaning a place for some religious rites, but then it doesn't make sense.
Although, there is a "vidyA" in the veda called "madhu-vidyA", using which a person aspires to make everything in his life sweet. Look for madhu-sUktam in the rigveda. But again this vidyA doesn't have much to do with bears.
But I guess a Russian name is much more likely to be associated with bears, than a spiritual vidyA to make everything in one's life sweet.