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I make no guarantee about the veracity of this site, but there seem to be some good links that might help you:
http://www.ammas.com/topics/Parenting/a117461.html
What are the convulsions of a city in comparison with the insurrections of the soul?
Man is a depth still greater than the people.
http://www.ammas.com/topics/Parenting/a117461.html
Man is a depth still greater than the people.
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I do not know the meaning of the name, I can only explain some of the things on that site.
First one needs to know the spelling in an Indian script, preferably a north Indian script, for words of Sanskrit origin: I am assuming that it is srIhita (श्रीहित if you can read it) in a standard transliteration scheme. The last a, originally pronounced a schwa, will be dropped in common pronounciation today, and the h was probably introduced because of a South Indian English transliteration which uses the h to `soften' (dental) the English t sound. (It is the beginning of thing without the breathing out, not the sound in town).
The element srI comes from a root meaning to burn or diffuse light and is a very old element. Like many words etymologically connected with brightness, it is connected with the divine, especially the goddess of wealth, and often symbolizes wealth and beauty. It is also used as a simple honorific before divine or human names, often repeated when in the divine context.
The common meaning of hita derives from a root dhA (cognate to English do) meaning to place, hold, or establish, but the common meaning is good (`well established'). There is a second rare meaning meaning impelled from a root hi meaning to cause to move.
I have not heard the combination srIhita before, and do not know whether, as someone claimed on that site, it is a name for viSNu, or whether it means creation. The straightforward word for creation is sRSTi (सृष्टि), and the word for created is sRjita (सृजित) (There are parts of India where the approximant R is pronounced ri). Of course one could have `held by god' to mean creation, but that is a rather obscure use of hita today.
First one needs to know the spelling in an Indian script, preferably a north Indian script, for words of Sanskrit origin: I am assuming that it is srIhita (श्रीहित if you can read it) in a standard transliteration scheme. The last a, originally pronounced a schwa, will be dropped in common pronounciation today, and the h was probably introduced because of a South Indian English transliteration which uses the h to `soften' (dental) the English t sound. (It is the beginning of thing without the breathing out, not the sound in town).
The element srI comes from a root meaning to burn or diffuse light and is a very old element. Like many words etymologically connected with brightness, it is connected with the divine, especially the goddess of wealth, and often symbolizes wealth and beauty. It is also used as a simple honorific before divine or human names, often repeated when in the divine context.
The common meaning of hita derives from a root dhA (cognate to English do) meaning to place, hold, or establish, but the common meaning is good (`well established'). There is a second rare meaning meaning impelled from a root hi meaning to cause to move.
I have not heard the combination srIhita before, and do not know whether, as someone claimed on that site, it is a name for viSNu, or whether it means creation. The straightforward word for creation is sRSTi (सृष्टि), and the word for created is sRjita (सृजित) (There are parts of India where the approximant R is pronounced ri). Of course one could have `held by god' to mean creation, but that is a rather obscure use of hita today.
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