Sarana
- Hinge, flexible joint (in Finnish), a device that holds two parts together so that one can swing relative to the other. I originally chose the name sarana in 1996 because it looked and sounded nice.
- Circumstance upon which subsequent events depend; “his absence is the hinge of our plan” (from English)
- In the Pali Text Society’s Pali-English Dictionary (1952 Reprint)/(literary references), the meaning of “sarana” is given as, “shelter, house, refuge, protection, especially the three refuges – the Buddha, the Dharma, and the Sangha.” The three refuges are known as the “Ti-Sarana”. Sarana is a much used word, and the “Ti-Saranas” are an often conceived concept among Buddhists.This is what I learned it to mean in the Autumn 2002
- Among the plants the most important one in the diet of ancient Kamchadals was sarana, a lily with dark purple flowers. Its bulbs ground with blueberries and other berries were a good substitution of bread. (Flora on Kamchatka)
- Puntius Sarana is an endangered fish living in southern Asia
- Sarana is given many Buddhist historical references by this Buddhist dictionary
Bizarre
- Brave, hardened, handsome, beard, angry (old meanings from Basque, French, Spanish and Italian)
- Deviating from the customary: cranky, curious, eccentric, erratic, freakish, idiosyncratic, odd, outlandish, peculiar, quaint, queer, quirky, singular, strange, unnatural, unusual, weird. I have concluded that these English versions of the word come from the word itself, which looks bizarre.
- Conceived or done with no reference to reality or common sense: antic, fantastic, fantastical, far-fetched, grotesque.
it’s not gold that glitters, but the reflected light of the sun