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CieSharp
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9/20/04 6:46am
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I heard that one track on the SOTE soundtrack might be a chorus chant in Sanskrit. Can anyone confirm?
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Jedi_Humaira_Blaine
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9/21/04 8:37am
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Erm I'm not sure what the abbreviation means Ciesharp. 
Can you explain? 
Sorry, I'm wracking my brain and it's just not processing today. Must be the weather! 
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CieSharp
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3/5/05 2:41pm
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7 months late, sorry :P
SOTE = Shadow of the Empire
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Sykes
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3/19/05 4:01pm
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Wow that's truly fascinating. I think all Hindus should unite and file a big law suit against Lucas. :-)
Seriously I really can't see how this can be coincidence. Ajamila and Anakin; the nature of the force and its similarity to the brahmin..!
Damn good essay! I really enjoyed reading that.
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Heru_Morna
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4/28/05 3:47am
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Well, Im Indian AND Hindu.
I dont think I can disagree with any of those name comparisions. E'cept, I think you meant 'Padma' for Lotus.
And yes CieSharp, 'Daaku' means Dacoit in Hindi.
Damn, this is interesting. Im forwarding this link to my friends. Maybe we WILL file a lawsuit
Good job.
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Heru_Morna
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[quote]Pooja roughly means "worship".[/quote]
Not roughly, it does mean worship. There is no other meaning.
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CieSharp
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5/27/05 8:50am
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Thanks for your comments, Sykes and Heru_Morna
I'll make the necessary changes should I ever make an update version of the essay. Sorry about the confusion in my Pooja definition. I honestly don't know why I added the word "roughly", it must have been late at night when I was writing that.
We really haven't seen too many new names in Episode III (aside from Grievious, Polis Massa, and Mustafar), but I do feel Episode III has a Mahabharat type feel to it, in regards to all the destruction and death.
In the opening crawl, we see the phrase "There are Heroes on both sides". The same is true of the great Mahabharat Battle of Kurukshetra. Although the Kauravas were foes of the Pandavas, and essentially the villains of the story, they are act honorably compared to any sovereign king in the next age of Kaliyuga, and there is great cause for mourning when such heroes as Bhishma and Drona (on the Kaurava side) are killed.
Although we don't see literal parallels to this in Episode III, we do see heroes on both sides, and the process by how many many heroes are killed, and we see the end of an era of "old world" peace and prosperity. Even when the Pandavas win the Battle of Kurukshetra, the age of chaos (KaliYuga) sets in and we never see the just rule seen in Dvarpara Yuga until the cycles start over again.
The ending of RotJ is a little more positive and implies things will at least be going back in the direction of the old times of the Old Republic. And the 20 years of Obi-Wan and Yoda going into exile is similar to the 13 years of when the Pandavas went into exile from the Kaurava rule.
Now Anakin's fall and redemption remind me not only of Ajamila, but of Chitraketu as well.
Anyway, this is not so much a new essay or even an addendum (although I may integrate these ideas into the essay in an updated version once I can clarify and refine my thoughts into something coherent that makes decent sense), just me discussing things informally. How do you all feel?
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Quruli
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6/2/05 3:10am
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There are so many martial art, Hinduism, Buddhism, Wungshixa etc. references in SW, wowzers.
(But not an equal number of Asian actors? ;_;)
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Im_but_a_padawan
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so can anyone help me find the meaning of naberrie....I've been looking all over...and it seems that I can find NOTHING...
p.s. - I'm new here.
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If I was padme, and didn't die, I would TOTALLY forgive Anakin for choking me.
just because she would so be into that kinda stuff...
I mean, did you not see the dominatrix outfit in ep. II??
...silly padme...
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RaenStevin
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You mention part of the text was taken from a Sanskrit text "Battle of the Trees". You may find it interesting that John Williams used this title for a movement from his Horn Concerto. It was the one movement I found of musical merit, but that's another story.
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jedi-girl
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10/30/05 3:02pm
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thanks for sharing, CieSharp - really interesting essay!
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CieSharp
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12/6/05 7:56am
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Thanks for the kind words, everyone
As for Naberrie, I'm really not sure. Not everything in SW has some obscure ethnic reference point, some are taken from actual names -- for instance, I THINK that George Lucas himself said that the name Anakin was based on his friend's name, Ken Annakin.
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CieSharp
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12/22/05 7:04am
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Oh wow, apparently the Marauders from the Ewok movies are from a species called "Sanyassan", very similar to Sanyasi :P
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