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Started. Ms Sarah Welch (talk) 00:50, 16 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Etymology

Someone please remove this from the Etymology section:

Māyā (Sanskrit: माया) ... probably comes from two roots, mā (or may-) which means "measure", and "yā" which means "vanish, to go, undertake".[8] These roots are also related to the root mā, which means mother and serve as an epithet for goddesses such as Lakshmi.[8][9]

It is sourced, but it is Prof. Gonda's own speculation. It's more than certain that the mā- root for "measure" is UNRELATED to mā (mother). Of course also Sanskrit never forms nouns by a combination of two roots, as is his other suggestion. With due respect to Prof. Gonda, but please the etymology section be sourced to reliable dictionaries. — kashmiri ^TALK 02:37, 16 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Kashmiri: Jan Gonda's scholarship is well respected. Wikipedia summarizes WP:RS. Don't do your own WP:OR in wikipedia, or cherrypick sources and pick sides, or start challenging WP:RS. If you find a reliable dictionary that hasn't been summarized, we can add that as well for NPOV. Ms Sarah Welch (talk) 02:42, 16 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Exactly. Many sources agree that māyā might be related to mā-, "to measure" (or "to span"). However, it must be only Prof. Gonda to come up with māyā = mā + yā", or that "mother" is related to "measure". We base Wikipedia on the mainstream view, not on WP:OR, even by a professor. By the way, I can't even believe a scholar of Sanskrit would have published such a thing, must be misinterpretation. — kashmiri ^TALK 02:52, 16 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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	:@Kashmiri: Jan Gonda's scholarship is well respected. Wikipedia summarizes WP:RS. Don't do your own WP:OR in wikipedia, or cherrypick sources and pick sides, or start challenging WP:RS. If you find a reliable dictionary that hasn't been summarized, we can add that as well for NPOV. [[User:Ms Sarah Welch\|Ms Sarah Welch]] ([[User talk:Ms Sarah Welch\|talk]]) 02:42, 16 January 2016 (UTC)		:@Kashmiri: Jan Gonda's scholarship is well respected. Wikipedia summarizes WP:RS. Don't do your own WP:OR in wikipedia, or cherrypick sources and pick sides, or start challenging WP:RS. If you find a reliable dictionary that hasn't been summarized, we can add that as well for NPOV. [[User:Ms Sarah Welch\|Ms Sarah Welch]] ([[User talk:Ms Sarah Welch\|talk]]) 02:42, 16 January 2016 (UTC)

			:: Exactly. Many sources agree that ''māyā'' might be related to ''mā-'', "to measure" (or "to span"). However, it must be only Prof. Gonda to come up with ''māyā = mā + yā", or that "mother" is related to "measure". We base Wikipedia on the mainstream view, not on [[WP:OR]], even by a professor. By the way, I can't even believe a scholar of Sanskrit would have published such a thing, must be misinterpretation. — [[User:Kashmiri\|<span style="color:#30C;font:italic bold 1em Candara;text-shadow:#AAF 0.2em 0.2em 0.1em;">kashmiri</span>]] [[User talk:Kashmiri\|<sup style="font-family:Candara; color:#80F;">TALK</sup>]] 02:52, 16 January 2016 (UTC)