Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Names

I was looking up some of the names from River of Gods, and discovered that some of them refer to cities in India.

Ajmer Rao- Ajmer is a city in the Ajmer district of Rajasthan
Shaheen Badoor Khan- Shaheen is a middle eastern name that means peregrine falcon, Badoor is a village in the Kasaragod district of Kerala, India, and Khan is many things. It is an old, central asian title for a sovereign or military ruler. It is also a river in Namibia.

1 comment:

  1. You would think that with a novel dealing with the Indian Pantheon there would be more evidence of the Gods' names--unless some of the city's names are based on the Gods....

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