Talk:Paramahansa
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[edit] Context
What does the title mean? NickelShoe 15:39, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Merge with Paramahamsa?
Hey folks, why did someone start up this page after we'd already had Paramahamsa up and running for almost nine months? Why don't we work on merging them? Paramahansa leaves out some very important aspects of the meaning/history/etc. of the title.Emyth 21:56, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Name
Obviously they should be merged. Without falling victim of the "Ten Trillion Flies" fallacy, WP:NAMING calls for using the most common English name. Arguably the assimilated form is also more accurate. Consider the following Google hit statistics:
| 411,000 | paramahansa |
| 144,000 | paramahamsa |
| 37,900 | ramakrishna paramahansa |
| 57,900 | ramakrishna paramahamsa |
| 369,000 | paramahansa yogananda |
| 24,200 | paramahamsa yogananda |
| 16,400 | paramahansa muktananda |
| 827 | paramahamsa muktananda |
| 1,710 | paramahansa nityananda |
| 699 | paramahamsa nityananda |
This would suggest that the name of the merged article should be Paramahansa, with the m variant being made a redirect. Some redundancy in the explanation of the the transliteration of the anusvara has crept in, which should be refactored. How the merging of the edit histories would proceed, I can't say. Ziusudra 15:08, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Swan vs. Goose
There is valuable information in both articles which should be preserved. For starters, though, even though it is clear that "transcendent swan" flies better than "super goose" in English, the Sanskrit word can mean either goose or swan, and there exist various more-or-less folk-etymological legends about how the name arose. A single explanation cannot be given as being definitive to the exclusion of all others: it is an excess of zeal to tie it to a single species. Ziusudra 15:08, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
