General Sanskrit Animal Names
General Sanskrit Animal Names This blog post is not going to too deep, rather it is going to assign Sanskrit names to common animals without going too much into taxonomy. This is merely to provide a framework for when we do coin more specific taxonomic names later on. The way this works is if there is a specific species of a generic animal group, say Indian carp of the carp family, then the specifici Sanskrit word for the species becomes the generic name. To specify the specific Indian species, we add the word "Indian" ( भारतीय ). I will also actively borrow from other languages if I can't find a Sanskrit name for the bird. Other times I will make up a name. Dr.Raghu Vira has done a great job in coining Sanskrit terms for Zoology and for other STEM disciplins, and I may have unknowlingly derived from him. However, I want to improve upon his works by either being more simple, more accurate, or reducing ambiguity. For example, he renders "lemur" as "night ...