Arvind
Arvind, Aravind or Aravinda (from Sanskrit: अरविन्द aravinda) is a common Indian masculine given name. Its meaning is "lotus".[1] Its variants include , Arvin, Aravindan, Arahvinth and Aravindh(a) (in South India), and Aurobindo (in Bengali).
Meaning
Aravinda 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.
Notable people
- Arvind Singh Mewar Maharana of Udaipur ( Mewar )
- Arvind Kejriwal, politician
- Arvind Panagariya, Vice Chairman of Niti Aayog of India
- 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.
- ↑ 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
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