The consonant “K” was the symbol of the curvilinear motion of the celestial bodies in space and viewed as being the motion of the creative energy of the universe made up of waters (ka) and light (ka). It was an energy that also reflected and radiated from the heart of man as in to love (kam) and to be happy (kaj). This developed into the Sanskrit roots “kan” “kal” “kav” “kas” “kr” and “kha”.
The Sanskrit “kal” has been defined as “to count” “to announce the time” this produces “kala” meaning “time” “season” “division of time” it produces “Kali” the “Goddess of time” it produces “kali” as in the “fourth age” the “winter age” the “last of the four universal cycles”, the present age we are now living in, it produces “kala” meaning “death” or that which marks “the passage of time” and it produces “kala chakra” the “wheel of time.
As the Sanskrit “kal” means “to announce the time” it becomes the Latin “calare” meaning “to announce the time”. In Rome the priests would observe the new moons and publicly declare them in relation to their saints and feast days and this observance throughout the year was documented as a “calendar” whose source is this Sanskrit “kal”.
As “kal” meaning “to announce the time” becomes the Latin “calare” meaning “to announce the time” it produces words such as the Latin “clarus” meaning “clear” “loud” and from which comes the words “clarify” “clarity” and “declare”. “Clear” is a word which was originally in relation to “sound” an example being “as clear as a bell” this evolved to become associated with “light” “water” ect, however its original meaning is related to “sound” coming from the Latin “calare” whose source is the Sanskrit “kal”.
“Kal” meaning “to count” also becomes the Greek “kalyx” meaning “pebble” and the Latin “calculus” meaning “pebble” so named as they were used to facilitate “counting” and this then becomes the word “calculate” whose ultimate source is this Sanskrit “kal” meaning “to count”. In fact hundreds of years previously ancient Indian astronomers could “calculate” precise astrological events such as eclipses, simply by moving stones.
In his book “comparative etymology, Sanskrit, Latin and Greek” the author Franco Rendich writes “The root “kal” meant “to reach (al) with curvilinear movement (k)” meaning to observe the regularity of movement of stars in the sky. Indo/european priests “calculated” the months, days and years, both solar and lunar, in order to put together their religious “calendar” ( kalendae in Latin was the first day of the lunar month )”.
The author Franco Rendich goes on to say “Both the Latin verb calculo “calculate” and the noun “kalendae” which indicated the first day of the month originated from the root “kal” meaning “to count”.
“Anachronistic as this labyrinthine mythology may appear to the foreign mind, many of India’s ancient theories about the universe are startlingly modern in scope and worthy of a people who are credited with the invention of the zero, as well as algebra and its application of astronomy and geometry; a people who so carefully observed the heavens that, in the opinion of Monier-Williams, they determined the moon’s synodical revolution much more correctly than the Greeks.” Three Ways of Asian Wisdom – By Nancy Wilson Ross p. 64 – 67 and 74 – 76).
