Indian baby names

[Roshan]

I had an undue fascination for left hand batsmen (namma pasanga-nnu), so Kepler Wessels-kku initial-A oru disproportionate memory. It took too many "b Prabhakar"'s to dislodge him.

Prabhu, are you a lefty ?

Sourav Ganguly
Lance Klusener

andha range

Batting mattum left handed. Matthadhu ellam right.

I thought so too but ivaru eppO batting ellAm paNNaar'grA doubtu.. adhaan koncham yOsichEn :P

[P_R]

naan niRaiya matchugaL viLayAdiyirukkEn
sorry....paathirukkEn

[Sanguine Sridhar]

Kepler Wessels, Clive Rice, Jimmy Cook : nallA thaan yA set sErndhirukkAinga

Yaaru intha mAthiri ellAm pEr vekkiRaanga Have you met such people

Cricketers!

What about Srilankan Cricketers

Vaas - Warnakulasuriya Patabendige Ushantha Joseph Chaminda Vaas

Kulasekara - Kulasekara Mudiyanselage Dinesh Nuwan Kulasekara

Roshan - Is he a hindu? Kulasekara aazhwar kelivipatrukeengala?

Sridhar, Most Sinhalese have long names. Their family name, father's name, avanga name'nu oru chinna vaRalaaRE irukkum avanga pErla. pEra vechu entha area, enna caste'nu kandupidikkalAmnu solluvaanga. Even spelling matters. Warnakulasuriya I guess must be his father's name and Patabandige is family name. Ushantha Joseph Chaminda Vaas is his name. Joseph Vaas is one of the most hailed Cathalic Priest who was instrumental in spreading Catholicism in Sri Lanka.

Kulasekara is a Budhist. Kulasekara in Hindu names is something new to me. Thanks for sharing. Most Singhalese names have elements of Sanskrit (Paali-Sanskrit connection). Ungalukku Rohith'na ingu Rohitha, Ramesh turns Romesh (Former Cricketer Romesh Ratnayake), Kumar becomes Kumara (Kumara Dharmasena). Ippadi niRaiya connections uNdu between Hindu names and Budhist names.

Thanks for the informations Roshan. Very interesting.

[P_R]

Something yesterday that reminded me of this thread.....

Got an auto from the airport

Me: en pEr Prabhu, unga pErunga ?
Auto driver: pavaLavaNNan
Me: ada romba nalla pErunga....neenga kaanchipuramA ?
PV: illainga
Me: anga oru kOvil-la saami pEru pavaLavaNNar
PV: andha kaalathula periyavanga vechcha pEr Sir
Me: ippollAm yaarum indha maadhiri pErE vaikkuradhillai
(my unborn son swallows hard in mortal fear)

PV's riding style seemed focused on getting me to quickly meet his more celebrated namesake.A Lancer guys cuts sharp across several lanes demanding the best skills of PV to avoid a collision. This is followed by a string of choice epithets from Sri PavaLavaNNar.

I found that very funny, what's in a name and all that....

Director V.Sekar in an interview

Anchor: unga pasangaLai paththi konjam sollunga
VS: payyan pEru karal marx....podhuvudamai thaththuvathula enakku eerppu irundhadhaale, andha pErai vachchEn
Anchor: Karal Marx enna paNraar ?
VS: coimbatore-la MBA padikkiRAr.

[crajkumar_be]

(my unborn son swallows hard in mortal fear)

Sariyana dilemma, seriously!

[podalangai]

Kulasekara in Hindu names is something new to me. Thanks for sharing.

Kulasekaran is, as far as I know, only used in Tamil Nadu and, possibly, Kerala. There were a number of Chera and Pandiya kings by that name ("Kulasekara varman", "Kulasekara Cheraman", "Maravarman Kulasekara Pandiyan" and so on).

Most Singhalese names have elements of Sanskrit (Paali-Sanskrit connection). Ungalukku Rohith'na ingu Rohitha, Ramesh turns Romesh (Former Cricketer Romesh Ratnayake), Kumar becomes Kumara (Kumara Dharmasena). Ippadi niRaiya connections uNdu between Hindu names and Budhist names.

When my aunt and uncle still lived in Sri Lanka, they had a Sikh acquaintence who was called Vikram Singh. He regularly received letters addressed to "Mr. Wickramasinghe". My own name mutated into "Aravinda" often enough, in the days when I used to do some work with Sri Lanka.

[Roshan]

Kulasekara in Hindu names is something new to me. Thanks for sharing.

Kulasekaran is, as far as I know, only used in Tamil Nadu and, possibly, Kerala. There were a number of Chera and Pandiya kings by that name ("Kulasekara varman", "Kulasekara Cheraman", "Maravarman Kulasekara Pandiyan" and so on).

Most Singhalese names have elements of Sanskrit (Paali-Sanskrit connection). Ungalukku Rohith'na ingu Rohitha, Ramesh turns Romesh (Former Cricketer Romesh Ratnayake), Kumar becomes Kumara (Kumara Dharmasena). Ippadi niRaiya connections uNdu between Hindu names and Budhist names.

When my aunt and uncle still lived in Sri Lanka, they had a Sikh acquaintence who was called Vikram Singh. He regularly received letters addressed to "Mr. Wickramasinghe". My own name mutated into "Aravinda" often enough, in the days when I used to do some work with Sri Lanka.

Oh! idha eppadi maRanthEn - example kodukkumpOthu

Hope you are keeping well Aravindhan. Romba naaL aachu ungakooda pEsi.