'dvitÄ«ya Å›rÄ«-laká¹£mÄ«' — ihÄá¹… 'dvitÄ«yatva' vidheya
samÄse gauṇa haila, Å›abdÄrtha gela ká¹£aya

 dvitÄ«ya Å›rÄ«-laká¹£mÄ« - the word dvitÄ«ya-Å›rÄ«-laká¹£mÄ« ('a second all-opulent goddess of fortune'); ihÄá¹… - this; dvitÄ«yatva - the quality of being a second; vidheya - the unknown, which is to be explained; samÄse - in the compound word; gauṇa - secondary; haila - became; Å›abda-artha - the word's intended meaning; gela - became; ká¹£aya - lost.


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“In the word ‘dvitīya-śrī-lakṣmī’ [‘a second all-opulent goddess of fortune’], the quality of being a second Lakṣmī is the unknown. In making this compound word, the meaning became secondary and the originally intended meaning was lost.

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