JUGGERNAUT

There’s a lot we can know about a word, just by going deep into the origin of the word, and how it was formed. For example, the word “tamarind” is derived from the Arabic word “Tamar-e-hind” meaning “dates from India”. Just by looking into the origin of this word, we can infer that it was an entity transferred from India to Arab region.

The word “Juggernaut” means “a huge, powerful, and overwhelming force”. More interesting is the origin of the word “Juggernaut”. It originates from the Sanskrit word Jaggannath, and was derived from the event of Jaggannath rath yatra, where the idols of Mahaprabhu is carried in an enormous carriage.

Similarly, the word “khuda” has its origin from Sanskrit, and this could be one of the reasons that during the regime of zia ul haq in Pakistan, the usual greeting of khuda-hafiz was changed to allah-hafiz.