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The naturalistic provenance of Sinivali becomes manifest
in her name when one looks at the sky of the 14th day of the dark
half with the crescent moon, shining in it.
Visva Bandhu derives
the term from Indo-European Vsvint (= white) and takes the whole
compound to mean 'she who possesses the moon with one digit'
(A Vedic word concordance, Section I, pt. V, 3377). Sinivali has
a very close nexus with the moon. She is regarded as his wife.
Sin is a Greek moon-god, and a patron of fertility. So is the
moon. It may be suggested that sini (shortened form of Sinivall)
might be his feminine form, for she has her counterpart, namely
Seleni in the Greek mythology.
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According to Gonda (Aspects of Vi峁�nuism, p.227), 'the
word Sinivali means the Earth, and that sense was later on
developed in the goddess Earth', who was imagined to be
a wife of Visnu. This is not, however convincing. Sina
'food' or as it is traced in the Nirukta (V5) to Vsi
'to bind', literally 'that which binds together creatures'
Varma (Etymologies of Y盲ska, 147-48) says :
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If Yaska considers n of sin膩ti to be transferred to
the noun sina, the etymology is unsound. S.P.S.
W枚rterbuch derives it from Vsan = to offer, provide',
but even then the vowel is remains unexplained. Sinivali
(Nirukta XI.13) is traced to (1) Sina + vala, sin - 'food'
and Vala - 'a day of astronomical conjunction' from vr
'to cover', the whole word meaning 'full' of food on 'a
day of astronomical conjunction' or to (2) sina + b膩la and
meaning the time 'during which the moon, on account of
its smallness, is sewed up as if it were a child.
Varma says:
Phonologically this word illustrates how v and b
promiscuously appeared even to Yaska. According to