I remember watching this movie (Malayalam version of Aladdin's Magic Lamp) as a child. The genie keeps repeating the word Alambana. After watching this movie, the word Alambana had become a household utility. Never understanding its true meaning. Until I bumped into its meaning.
Alambana is a Sanskrit noun which variously means – support, foundation, supporting, base, sustaining, cause, reason, basis, or the five attributes of things, or the silent repetition of a prayer, or the natural and necessary connection of a sensation with the cause which excites it, or the mental exercise practiced by the yogis in endeavouring to realize the gross form of the Eternal.
Now, the term makes perfect sense - Support, Foundation, Base.
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