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    ब"ठना — to sit

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    2016
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    Snell, Rupert
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    Asian Studies
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    Could there be a more down-to-earth, unremarkable word than ब"ठना ? And yet the simple concept of ‘sitting’ yields a wide range of metaphorical and idiomatic meanings in both Hindi and English. In some ways the two traditions run in parallel: for example, in both languages ब"ठक / sitting has acquired the abstract sense of a ‘session’ (this word itself derives, like ‘sit’ itself, from Latin sedere ‘to sit’); but elsewhere the idioms work out differently, giving us plenty to think about as we sit contemplating the histories of these words.
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    Rupert Snell
    Hindi
    Sanskrit
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    http://hdl.handle.net/2152/45669
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