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Sanskrit ''Hari'' (Devanagari: हरि) is in origin a colour term for yellowish hues, including yellow, golden, yellowish-brown or reddish brown, fallow or khaki, pale yellow, greenish or green-yellow. It has important symbolism in the Rigveda and hence in Hinduism; in Rigvedic symbolism, it unites the colours of Soma, the Sun, and bay horses under a single term.〔Monier-Williams, ''A Sanskrit Dictionary'' (1899): "fawn-coloured, reddish brown, brown, tawny, pale yellow, yellow, fallow, bay (esp. applied to horses), green, greenish"〕 The word Hari is widely used in later Sanskrit and Prakrit literature, Hindu, Buddhist, Jain and Sikh religions. It appears as 650th name of Vishnu in the Vishnu sahasranama of the Mahabharata and hence rose to special importance in Hindu Vaishnavism. ==Etymology== The Sanskrit word is cognate with Avestan ''zari'', with the same meaning (''zari'' has (dubiously) been identified as the first part of the name of Zarathustra). The English words ''gold'' and ''yellow'' (from Germanic ''gulþan, gelwaz'') as well as Latin ''helvus'' "light-yellow" are from the same Indo-European root, reconstructed as '' *ǵʰelH-''. In Greek Hari means grace or kindness. Some words in non-Indo-European languages which fell under Hindu dominance during the medieval period also have loanwords derived from the Sanskrit term, including the word for "day" in Malay and Indonesian, and the word for "king" in Tagalog. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hari」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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