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ccpetersen · Posted: Wed Mar 06, 2013 3:33 pm Post subject: Pronunciation of Buddhist god

Any Buddhists or people who know the pantheon here? I have a narration that has the name "Vaisravana" in it, one of the earliest Buddhist gods. A quick search of Forvo.com turns up nothing, and the closest I've found are pronunciations of the Chinese version of his name.

Anybody know what it sounds like? I'm inclined to go with VAZE-rah-VAH-nah.
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Scott Pollak · Posted: Wed Mar 06, 2013 7:20 pm Post subject:

CC, wish I could answer your question, but I can't.

But I also can't let your thread go by without sharing with you a very, very funny - and horribly trying - job I had some years ago narrating a very long-form Hindu thing for some professor in CA who was taking a presentation to India.

I stumbled and bumbled my way thru this gawd-awful thing and posted just a small fragment of the many, many outtakes on the old V123 forum. THEN the amazingly talented Dave DeAndrea then took my outtakes and crafted them into THIS work of art:

https://soundcloud.com/whatyes-1/scott-pollak-outtake-the-remix
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ccpetersen · Posted: Wed Mar 06, 2013 9:40 pm Post subject:

That file is a riot! Good work!

thanks Eddie -- I didn't think to call a temple.

will do that tomorrow.

c
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Mandy Nelson · Posted: Thu Mar 07, 2013 6:06 pm Post subject:

CC, I'm no expert but I'm a certified yoga instructor with years of Sanskrit under my belt. I've never met an asana I didn't like (sorry, yoga joke).

Anyway, it looks like you have it right. In Sanskrit you pronounce every letter. Your inflection seems right, too. I think you should feel comfortable with that and go with it. You can always record it in a way that will allow you to punch in an edit undetected if they have an issue with it.

I'm not sure if there are Sanskrit audio dictionaries (my 'puter is about to die and I left the cable over at the barn) but you could look that up. GOOD LUCK!
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ccpetersen · Posted: Fri Mar 08, 2013 10:47 am Post subject:

ThankEE!!!

The temple folk said roughly the same thing so I guess I'm on the right track.

ccp
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Mike Harrison · Posted: Sat Mar 09, 2013 8:29 am Post subject:

boō'dist gäd

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ccpetersen · Posted: Sat Mar 09, 2013 11:51 am Post subject:

Hah!

I'll give you names. A few years ago we did a video about Mars exploration and it started out with the actor saying a list of the various names of Mars throughout the ages. Here they are without any guide to pronunciation:

Nabu
Nirgal
Urbarra
Salbatanu
Verethragna
Mustabarru
Lohitanga
Pyroeis
Mirihka
Angares
Ares

Here's a link to a page with the actual video (in parts):

http://www.lochnessproductions.com/shows/mq/mq_previews.html

Under "View the whole show!" click on Part 1 and listen.

I spent a couple of days researching the names and pronunciations. It was a delight to hear the actor say those words as if he'd been saying them all his life. We sent phonetic pronunciations when we sent the script and then went over them in the studio on narration day.

Research is fun when it's applicable. Wink

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