Homer and the Rigveda Use the Same Word for Fame — Kléos & Śravas

Discover India Podcast by Professor Pankaj Jain, Ph.D. by Prof Pankaj Jain

English took one word from Homer's Odyssey — odyssey , "the long journey out." But the word that poem is really about has a Sanskrit twin. Greek kléos and Sanskrit श्रवस् (śravas) are the same inherited word, from a root...View more