Re: [nukkad] two poems

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Birth, life and death. Breakfast, lunch and dinner. Coincidence? 
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Anna Morawska wrote:
> 
> (*> Is 'A' a negative prefix?

yes.

like non-, or dis-

>       But this expression was some time ago explained to me as 'the one that provides plenty of food'. If something 'feeds the mind', can it not be called like that?

grains (anna) are specifically for body.
for feeding the mind, there should be vichaar-puurNaa
(thought) or man-puurNaa (mind).

> And why is it sometimes written 'poorna' and sometimes 'purNa' ?

it is long uu, as in woolf. poorNaa is correct.

Anna Morawska wrote:

> Dear All Hindi-speakers[and writers],

Add maraathi, gujaratii, bengali and a few other languages
also, as they all are written like this.


> Has it ever occurred to you that Devanagari characters, when written on lined paper, " should hang from the
printed line like washing put out to dry, not stand on the
lower line as the Roman script does." ?

Right.

Actually, all such letters of alphabets have a horizontal
like above them. That line should fall on the printed line
of the paper.

-Rawat


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