Arvind
Arvind or Aravind (Sanskrit: अरविन्द aravinda) is a common Indian masculine given name. Its meaning is "lotus".[1] Its variants include Aravinda, Arvin, Aravindan, Arahvinth and Aravindh (in South India), and Aurobindo (in Bengali). It is used by the followers of many religions, including Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Christianity, Sikhism, and Islam.
Meaning
Arvind means lotus in the Sanskrit language. In particular, the word may refer to the white lotus,[2] on which the Hindu goddess of wealth and prosperity – Lakshmi – sits. It could also refer to the Sanskrit term aravindākṣa (meaning the "lotus eyed one"), the 347th name used to describe the Hindu god Vishnu in the Vishnu Sahasranama.
Arvind is also a name of the Hindu god Shiva, who is depicted as bearing a crescent moon on his head. (Araav means 'top of something' e.g. The Aravalli Range literally meaning 'line of peaks, a range of mountains' + Indu means moon.)
Notable people
- Arvind Kejriwal, politician
- Arvind (computer scientist)
- Arvind Parmar, tennis player
- Arvind Swamy, Indian film actor
Aravind
- Aravind Akash, Indian actor
- Aravind Adiga, Indian journalist and author
- Aravind L Iyer, Evolutionary biologist
Aravinda
- Aravinda de Silva, Sri Lankan cricketer
- Aravinda Akroyd Ghose, better known as Sri Aurobindo, Indian philosopher
- Aravinda Chakravarti, American geneticist
Aravindan
- Aravindan Neelakandan, Indian writer
Aurobindo
- Sri Aurobindo, an Indian nationalist, philosopher, yogi and poet
References
- ↑ Monier-Williams, Monier (1899), A Sanskrit-English dictionary : etymologically and philologically arranged with special reference to cognate Indo-European languages, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ISBN 978-0-19-864308-1
- ↑ Teresa Norman (2003). A World of Baby Names. Penguin. p. 245. ISBN 978-0-399-52894-1.
See also
- All pages with titles containing Arvind
- All pages with titles containing Aravind