CLAVING

It doesn't mean anything to me. Can you give us more than half a sentence? Where did you read or hear it? Could it be a typo?

O Jahnavi! O Ganga! deliverer of the fallen,
Whose waves are beautiful,
Claving the foremost of mountains,
Mother of Bhi?ma, 5 daughter of the foremost of munis.
Protectress of the fallen; praised in the three worlds....

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It is a poem.
Maybe it means: Spli

Denisa 0610It is a poem. Maybe it means: Splitting? The mountain in question is Himalaya.

It is a typo for "cleaving". There is no word "to clave". There is an archaic past participle of "cleave", "clave", but that would not make "claving", obviously. A river would cleave the mountains.

There are other typos on that page:

"putiry" for "purity

I cannot find these other verses.
Is it not "this hymn" and "these hymns"?
And the last sentence I don't understand either. Kos ot? What does it mean?

Denisa 0610I cannot find these other verses.Is it not "this hymn" and "these hymns"?And the last sentence I don't understand either. Kos ot? What does it mean?

I assumed you were reading this webpage. I think they meant "this hymn", and I guess it's "within two kos of T

No, I was reading this:
http://www.sacred-texts.com/tantra/htg/htg33.htm#fn_1288

Denisa 0610No, I was reading this:http://www.sacred-texts.com/tantra/htg/htg33.htm#fn_1288

Thanks. I do have to guess a lot when you keep things like that secret.

I still say it's "cleaving", but now I'm not so confident about it. There may be an obs

So, the meaning is "to split the mountain"? It is strange, too.

Denisa 0610So, the meaning is "to split the mountain"? It is strange, too.

I don't think it splits the mountain but the mountains. Such language is not unusual for rivers. We say the Colorado River carved the Grand Canyon, or that a river system dissects a plain.

Where does the sentence come from? Maybe it's meaning is metaphorical?