<!--QuoteBegin-Dul+Sep 17 2007, 05:34 PM-->QUOTE(Dul @ Sep 17 2007, 05:34 PM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->btw, talking about Abhishek....check out a a great video (Abhishek and <b>Ashwarya</b>)
[right][snapback]73254[/snapback][/right]<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Dul - I know pedantry isn't attractive, but I can't help it in certain cases and wouldn't mind you returning the favour whenever I make a typo (which is <i>very</i> frequently) - but the way you accidentally spelled her name happens to have strange connotations:
Aishwarya Rai is not a horse. 'Ashwa' being horse in Samskritam, it kind of inadvertently reminds one of that. But 'Aishwarya' is one of Lakshmi's many names and particularly refers to the wealth aspect of Lakshmi.
(Come to think of it, when channel-zapping when in Chennai I've heard ignorant psecular stars and presenters call A Rai "Ashwarya" - although the programs where it happened were in Hindi, I understood that they were referring to Rai when they showed clips of her and also the mention of the 'Rai' surname was a hint...
Anyways, I thought they were doing it either because (1) They're so far removed from anything Hindu they don't know it's actually pronounced Eye-shvaryaa not Ah-shwarya; (2) they didn't like her for whatever reason and mangled her name on purpose; or (3) they only ever came across her name shortened to "Ash" and assumed the full version was somehow related to that instead.)
[right][snapback]73254[/snapback][/right]<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Dul - I know pedantry isn't attractive, but I can't help it in certain cases and wouldn't mind you returning the favour whenever I make a typo (which is <i>very</i> frequently) - but the way you accidentally spelled her name happens to have strange connotations:
Aishwarya Rai is not a horse. 'Ashwa' being horse in Samskritam, it kind of inadvertently reminds one of that. But 'Aishwarya' is one of Lakshmi's many names and particularly refers to the wealth aspect of Lakshmi.
(Come to think of it, when channel-zapping when in Chennai I've heard ignorant psecular stars and presenters call A Rai "Ashwarya" - although the programs where it happened were in Hindi, I understood that they were referring to Rai when they showed clips of her and also the mention of the 'Rai' surname was a hint...
Anyways, I thought they were doing it either because (1) They're so far removed from anything Hindu they don't know it's actually pronounced Eye-shvaryaa not Ah-shwarya; (2) they didn't like her for whatever reason and mangled her name on purpose; or (3) they only ever came across her name shortened to "Ash" and assumed the full version was somehow related to that instead.)