A man strong enough to do that which she alone had done. To a young woman, it might have meant a chance, if not the only, at marriage. He or she can play longer, because the celebrations only begin later in the evening. To a child, that name might be synonymous with fireworks, sweets, new clothes, a new book or a later curfew. To a distraught king, it must have been synonymous with the word “son”, for he pined after him time and again until he left his mortal coil. Millennia later, to a devout Brahmin attuned to the western gesundheit, assimilating that with the only truth he knows by saying Shri Rama after every sneeze is second nature. ![]() To an ascetic who meditated so deeply that an anthill formed around him, it must have been synonymous with the darkness of the evening clouds. I ask this because as Indians, simply, that name must mean something to us all. ![]() ![]() I don’t even think it has anything to with following Hinduism. I don’t ask this question as someone who was brought up in an orthodox South Indian Brahmin home.
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