K.I. Naga Saravana Perumal.
K for Kayambu Servai (My Grand Pa)
I for Ilaya Perumal (My Dad)
Leave alone the expansion for "K" & "I" which I had to do for applying passport. Many say this one to be the longest they have heard of. But, I don't claim this to be the longest name in the world. But it is really a unique one.
At the earlier stages of my life I was wondering why my parents had kept such a long name for me. I used to hate that because everyone called me by different name. Some "Naga" some "Saravana" and few called me "Perumalu"(Slang used in my Native).Not to mention the combinations of these that cropped up then and there. Gradually it settled and everyone started calling me "NAGA".I liked this one as it was short and sweet. Now I just thank my parents for having christened me with this name. People identify me easily with this Unique Name. There had been many instances wherein people have identified me just with this name. I got to be really thankful to my parents for that matter.
Well the meaning of my name is quite complicated one. I myself had to wait for a long time to know that. I guess my Dad had told me that when I was around 9 years old.
Naga = For Snake God
Saravana = For Lord Muruga
Perumal = My Dads Last Name
I am the sixth and final child in my family. I can hear people saying why the hell is this? Among many even my parents had been one of the victims who were longing for a Male child for a long time. After all this was common in villages those days and the saddest truth is that it is still prevalent in quite a few rural areas down south.
Astrology, I would call this to be yet another social evil though I believed in it till 12th standard. And it is still common even among the so called highly Cultured and Educated society. This led my parents to worship the Snake god for a male child. So when I came into the world I was given the name "NAGA".
My father being a great devotee of Lord MURUGA he gave the name "SARAVANA" (one of the names for Murugan) which followed Naga. Then last one was just taken from my Dad's name. It was our "Kula Deivam" as we call it in south. Each and every family will have their own Kula Deivam and ours is Lord Perumal in Alagar Kovil near Madurai. And so the name "PERUMAL" got added to mine and thus the Name
" NAGA SARAVANA PERUMAL".Quite interesting story right.
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Grammatical errors, spelling errors are regretted by the Publisher.
3 comments:
I really pity your son whose name is going to be K.I.N. followed by his name... Suppose his name is venkatesan, the full name would be "Kayambuservai Illayaperumal Naga sarava perumal venkatesan" ( it took me a long time to type that :) ).
Your grandson... i dont even want to go there. mind boggling. :)
Good one da
i wrote one on simliar lines this Jan
u might be shocked to know
Nirmal means Asin :)
-Nirmal
Asin and Nirmal mean pure and clean
hahaha
ya dude, i wrote the same in ur orkut testimonial remembering u explain this to me long back :D , well a name and a feature combination acting as a perfect primary key is a rarity which i guessed the day our first Project Manager just identified us as " Naga and the other guy(tats me :D ) " , uniqueness is wat each one longs for and u can flaunt urs then only others will know its unique man :-) am waiting for the way u gonna come up with ur kid's name (PS watever may be the reason da plz make it a bit short for him cos if he s gonna fill the entire thing in some exam paper hes gonna have a tuff time fiting it in space provided :-D )
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