Sandhya Mayangum Neram

I was introduced briefly to a Malayalam song by a mallu female whom I met during my stay in US.
The song was melodious and it had this beautiful sentence “Sandhya mayangum neram”
It means "The evening time is intoxicating”

I could quickly relate it to a Marathi song “Tinhi Saanja sakhe milalya”

So I asked her, we call evening time as “Tin-Saanja”. May be it means 3 evenings. I tried to understand why its 3 evenings and not one evening. In Indian mythology, the world is considered not as one but as 3 different worlds. So 3 evenings are one for each of these 3 worlds.

I tried to explain this to her and to my surprise she said, “oh, we also have a word named ‘Tri-Sandhya” in Malayalam.
I felt what a great resemblance of these words the two languages are having. And yet there will be a lot of words expressed differently and will have different meanings in these languages.

Someone has said, the more languages you know the better you can think..because certain language do not give you the expression you want..but those expressions are defined in other languages..

A person wouldn't know how to express certain thing better had he known the language in which its most suitably defined. There are a lot of definitions which you will find in Marathi that you will not find in any other language..and this applies to any other language too.

Language is a mind of large group of people..a common expression and unlike a brush which needs a paint on canvas to create a painting... language itself is a paint..the more you know the more you can think..the more you can improve your thinking..because you will not be able to think in just one language.

Other language will give you the freedom to think...and vice versa. That’s why more you know about a lot of languages, the more versatile you become. Sometimes you search for a word that matches your thoughts, your expressions..you don't find it in the language you know..but had you known many languages , you would know exactly how to express it.