Talk:Prabhupāda

Prabhupāda
Prabhupāda, (alternative spelling: Prabhupada, Prabhupad) (eng)  প্রভুপাদ  (ben) is a Bengali word originated from the language Sanskrit meaning, an honorary title or, a title used before the name of Vaishnava religious teachers. Since Medieval Bengali Literature period "prabhu-pāda" means lotus feet of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu.

Prabhupāda is a joined word by the words 'prabhu' and 'pāda', where the word prabhu literally means, master or, lord, God, saint, person with high spiritual esteem, leader and the word pāda literally means, feet or, leg, root.


 * E.g. প্রভু (Prabhu) + পাদ (pāda) = প্রভুপাদ  (Prabhupāda) = বৈষ্ণবদের ধর্মগুরুর নামের আগে ব্যবহৃত উপাধিবিশেষ (title used before the name of Vaishnava Religious Teachers), সম্মানসূচক উপাধিবিশেষ (honorary title);

Footnote
Snthakur ( সৌমেন্দ্র নাথ ঠাকুর ) (talk) 04:04, 15 September 2013 (UTC)

Spellings
(For the benefit of Wikipedia readers who are sincerely interested in the topic of the article, and have no background on the subject, and may be confused by the variegated spellings being utilised by various source works, herewith entering clarifying information deleted by Quuxplusone, an interloper who does not know what he's doing - and we have so many, too many, of those on Wikipedia). Oliver Puertogallera (talk) 14:28, 21 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Prabhupāda — Standard and scholarly rendition according to the International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration.
 * Prabhupada — Non-standard, non-scholarly, popular spelling, that does not take into account that the term's second "a" is a different letter in Sanskrit from the first and the third "a."
 * Prabhupad — Non-standard, non-scholarly, popular phonetic spelling which renders the final "a" silent.
 * Prabhupaada — Old-fashioned Anglicism.
 * prabhupAda — Newfangled concoction created for computer systems without diacritical support.
 * [prabhʊ'pɑdə] — Phonetic spelling according to the IPA standard.