Sanskrit Translation

pamsowles · Post by **pamsowles** » 18 Jul 2006 21:59

I need the word "Namaste" translated into Sanskrit for a tattoo I'm going to get. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

SubEspion · Post by **SubEspion** » 19 Jul 2006 06:10

I think it's नमामि, but let's wait for Vikr's confirmation

drkpp · Post by **drkpp** » 19 Jul 2006 18:50

नमस्ते

SubEspion · Post by **SubEspion** » 19 Jul 2006 20:18

That's the Hindi translation, no?

I thought that the person asked for the Sanskrit translation of नमस्ते

drkpp · Post by **drkpp** » 19 Jul 2006 20:21

Sanskrit & Hindi are the languages which use the same devanagari script.
Since Hindi is essentially derived from Sanskrit some words are also inherited.

SubEspion · Post by **SubEspion** » 19 Jul 2006 20:23

I read that it came from namah te, thank you for the correction

pc2 · Post by **pc2** » 06 Aug 2006 21:10

namaste,

namaste in a contracted form of the Sanskrit expression namah te, and it means "peace-NOM-SG you-DAT-SG", "peace to you". this contraction is called sandhi.

salutations,