Yogeshwar (name)

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Yogeshwar is an Indian masculine given name. The Sanskrit word yogeśvara is a compound of yoga and īśvara. It has the meanings "master in magical arts", "master in yoga", "deity", and has been used as an epithet of various characters including Krishna, Vetala and Yajnavalkya.[1] A South Indian analogue of this name is Yogeswaran.

Notable people

References

  1. ^ Monier-Williams, Monier (1899). "yogeśvara". A Sanskrit-English Dictionary: Etymologically and Philologically Arranged with Special Reference to Cognate Indo-European Languages. Oxford: Clarendon Press. OCLC 685239912.