Shankar
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Shankar or Shamkar (Sanskrit शंकर Shaṃkara, "शम + कर, meaning Welfare + Bestower") is a Sanskrit noun, and means "Beneficent" or "Giver of Bliss".
It generally refers to a Hindu descriptions of one of the chief gods, Lord Shiva.
It may also refer to:
[edit] People
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Shankar is a common name in India. It generally refers to:
- Shiva, Hindu god who is referred to by numerous names
- Adi Shankara, Hindu philosopher (guru) of Advaita circa ninth century
- in Brahma Kumaris religion where it means bodiless state of soul.
Shankar is also the given name or family name of the following individuals:
- Members of the family of Indian musicians/dancers of whom the most well known are
- Uday Shankar (1900–1977), classical dancer
- Ravi Shankar (born 1920), sitar player
- Geethali Norah Jones Shankar (Norah Jones, born 1979), American singer-songwriter
- Anoushka Shankar (born 1981), Indian sitar player and composer in the United States. She is the daughter of Ravi Shankar, Indian sitar player, and Sukanya Rajan, a bank employee. Through her father, she is the half-sister of Grammy Award winner Norah Jones
- Ananda Shankar (1942–1999), Bengali musician best known for fusing Western and Eastern musical styles. He was married to Tanusree Shankar
- Mamata Shankar (born 1955), actress in the Bengali language film industry of India
- Shankar (actor) a (South, born 1960), Indian Film actor
- Colonel Shankar, the nom de guerre of Vaithilingam Sornalingam of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
- Shankar Mahadevan, singer and part of the Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy music-director trio
- Shankar, part of the Shankar Jaikishan music-director duo
- K. Shankar Pillai (1902–1989), Indian cartoonist
- Shankar's Weekly, a magazine founded by him
- Shankar's International Dolls Museum, New Delhi
- L. Shankar (born 1950), Indian violinist
- Mani Shankar Mukherjee, Bengali writer popularly known as Shankar
- Mani Shankar, Indian film-maker
- Ravi Shankar (poet), poet and faculty member of Central Connecticut State University
- Ramamurti Shankar, physicist
- S. Shankar (born 1963), Tamil film director
- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, guru and founder of the Art of Living movement
- Shankar Party unofficial name given to the Adhyatmik Ishwariya Vishwa Vidyalaya
- Shankar Lamichhane, Nepalese Essayist
- Shankar Vedantam, Author and Journalist
- Shankar Dayal Sharma (1918–1999), ninth President of India serving from 1992 to 1997
- Shankar Nagar
- Naren Shankar, writer, producer and director of several television series
- Virendra Dev Dixit, leader of Prajapita Brahma Kumaris religion.
- Adrian Shankar, English cricketer
The name "Shankar" exists in the Sanskrit language and is not related to the colloquial Tamil word "Sankar" which means cyclone.
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[edit] Places
- Shankar, Nakodar, Village located in Jallandhar, Punjab
[edit] Technology
- Shankar's Virus, a computer virus that infects word documents
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