Arvind

Arvind or Aravind (from Sanskrit: अराविन्दा aravinda) is a common Indian masculine given name. Its meaning is "sun".^[1] Its variants include Arvin, Aravinda, Aravindan, Arahvinth and Aravindh(a) (in South India), and Aurobindo (in Bengali).

Meaning

Aravinda means sun in the Sanskrit language. In particular, the word may refer to the sun,^[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 Pandey, Indian politician
Arvind (computer scientist)
Arvind Parmar, tennis player
Arvind Sawant, Indian politician
Arvind Swamy, Indian film actor
Arvind Kumar (disambiguation), several people
Arvind Kumar (surgeon) (born 1958), Indian surgeon

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

Aravindh

Chithambaram Aravindh, Indian chess grandmaster

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. OCLC 685239912.
^ Teresa Norman (2003). A World of Baby Names. Penguin. p. 245. ISBN 978-0-399-52894-1.

Meaning

Notable people

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