I will add a bit more context to the word "Samudrartha", When the buddha was discussing the prajnaparamita texts (also known as the great text of enlightment, contains more than 50000 pages, and was originally compiled in pali and later in sanskrit), shubhuti asked the buddha about the very essence of these texts, since learning more than 50k+ pages and retaining them in memory seemed quite difficult, so the buddha answered, "Thus shubhuti, the samudrartha (meaning of this ocean) is the very first and the core page, the prajna paramita hridaya sutra (also known as the heart sutra), and even today, in all the buddhist schools the very fundamental text they first learn is the heart sutra, which can be easily written in a single leaf."
actually, we could also get the meaning for samudrartha by breaking it into samudra and artha, which mean ocean and meaning respectively in hindi and kannada. I wasn't sure if it was a co-incidence tho
@@robynhood1001 oh hi, i too am a fellow kannadiga, and yep, the word samudrartha is used in different texts and poems, which can mean both "meaning of this ocean" or "essence of this ocean" and since kannada is a dravidian branch of language and written in the brahmi script, it make sense that most of the sanskrit, pali words are retained with similar or same meaning which we use everyday.
There can be different meanings, it's not really clear. Samudra means "gathering of the waters" which is ocean/sea. Second part of the word can be "Ardh" meaning "to divide in half" since DH literally split the sea. Or just taken from Samudra Manthana (churning of the ocean, fight of good/evil) from the Vishnu Puran epic.
@@popcorn.menace it's "arTha" not "arDha "adDha" means division in half, and "arTha" means "meaning" so samudrartha means "meaning of the ocean." im indian, and i know sanskrit and other of its derivative languages... edit: I will add a bit more context, When the buddha was discussing the prajnaparamita texts (also known as the great text of enlightment, contains more than 50000 pages, and was originally compiled in pali and later in sanskrit), shubhuti asked the buddha about the very essence of these texts, since learning more than 50k+ pages and retaining them in memory seemed quite difficult, so the buddha answered, "Thus shubhuti, the samudrartha (meaning of this ocean) is the very first and the core page, the prajna paramita hridaya sutra (also known as the heart sutra), and even today, in all the buddhist schools the very fundamental text they first learn is the heart sutra, which can be easily written in a single leaf."
@@shabreenbakthur7906 Namaskaram fellow sanskrit enthusiast :) That word is polysemous, it can have different meanings based on context. "Artha" can mean value too. (Value of the sea?) Or maybe "way" like used in "arthashastra"so it could be "way of the ocean." There's probably no particular clear meaning. I'm just enjoying the song :D
