Avahaara — Avataara — Avatar

Avahaara is the term for death, used in the most noble sense in Dhivehi, the meaning of the word has not changed much over the years from the time our forefathers came from the indian subcontinent.

the etymological root of Avahaara is in fact Avatar from Sanskrit अवतार avataara, which means “descent”, an refers to the human incarnation of God during times of distress on earth.  Thus, Krishna and Raama were both avataars of Vishnu, who also manifested himself as an avatar many other times to make a total of ten.

The word is used to announce the death of Kings and Noblemen, they can ‘avahaara’ while the word for commoners death is simply ‘Maru’..which is also from Sanskrit for death ”mar/mr” to die, The causative ”mar” means to kill, Derivatives include ”merethy/mrty”, death, ;”mareta” and ”maretan”, mortal and therefore man,human being.

In Ancient Maldives commoner were mortals and the Kings were gods on earth..

                              

                                  ten avatar of vishnu

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