Kut Jagate Meno?

September 16, 2005 11:20 PM

I have a T-shirt, it says "Kut Jagate Meno" in big letters underneath that to the side it says KANAAN COLL in small letters. Above the words is an image of two hands, one hand extends a crooked index finger and the other hand has the fingers bent in at the first knuckle and the index finger and middle finger are separated forming a space to receive the other hands crooked index finger. I got this second-hand in upstate New York and have no clue what any of it means. Any clues?
posted by I Foody to Writing & Language (11 answers total)

It's either Persian or sanskrit.
Kut is a town in Iraq, Jagate means "in the world" in sanskrit, and meno is... well, it's a work by Plato, that's all I could get.
posted by blue_beetle at 11:36 PM on September 16, 2005

Kut, Jagate, Meno and Coll are all words that apear in discussions of hinduism, hare krishnas, etc.
posted by delmoi at 11:44 PM on September 16, 2005

Actualy in discussion of gaudiya, which seems similar to hare krishna.
posted by delmoi at 11:51 PM on September 16, 2005

(in that they use hindi sounding words)
posted by delmoi at 11:54 PM on September 16, 2005

Is that the image?
posted by delmoi at 11:59 PM on September 16, 2005

(from this dictionary of "hastas"
posted by delmoi at 12:00 AM on September 17, 2005

Which I found googling "gaudiya hand gestures".
posted by delmoi at 12:09 AM on September 17, 2005

Response by poster: Delmoi, that doesn't look quite like it, here is a link to a terrible image of the shirt. The image looks like it could maybe be leading up to your gesture but I really don't think so.
posted by I Foody at 12:19 AM on September 17, 2005

Best answer: It seems to be sanskrit
kut: to destroy or divide
Jagate:the World/universe
meno: to stay/remain(?)

Don't know what the other two words are, but the hand-gesture I linked to above is called "pasha" which means "to fight".
posted by delmoi at 12:33 AM on September 17, 2005

On post: oh.

Well, I still think that they probably the same given that both the text of the shirt and the image of the hands are related to "gaudiya", but they are not related to eachother, and the image on your shirt could be a precursor of the pasha gesture.

Oh well. Hopefully someone who knows a little bit more will be able to figure it out
posted by delmoi at 12:36 AM on September 17, 2005

that's a rad shirt.

the end.
posted by Joseph Gurl at 9:27 AM on September 17, 2005