Hi guys,
I was hoping that someone here who speaks both fluent English and fluent Hindi can help me out (surely there's someone
). I'm looking for translation of two English words into Hindi. My Hindi is really only at a beginning level, and although I've been able to get around India without making too much of a fool of myself, I'm anxious to avoid making a mistake here, since I'm planning on getting these two words engraved onto something fairly precious.
The words in question are "darkness" and "light", as in the standard English phrase "darkness and light". Both should be nouns; following are some phrases in English that will hopefully illuminate the exact sense I'm looking for:
"Nothing can travel faster than the speed of light."
"When I turn off the lamp, there will be darkness in the room."
"In the absence of light, there is darkness."
(In English, the phrase "darkness and light," as well as the literal meaning, can also be a reference to the balance of good and evil. Is this the same in Hindi?)
I think that the words I'm looking for are "prakash" and "andhera", or in Devanagari,
प्रकाश and
अंधेरा(maybe with the nasal anusvara underneath the dot on the beginning "a", but I can't find a unicode symbol to represent it), but I'm not sure. I've also had
उजाला suggested as a translation for "light", supposedly a little more poetic, but I'm a bit leary since I haven't been able to find out much more about it and the sense it's used in.
Help would be much appreciated!