Kanishka

Interesting, may be you can post the link to the speech as well if it worth.
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rkumar said:
Name Kanishka is more common among Afghans even today than Indians. I was listening to speech by AB Vajpayee who mentioned about his experience of name Kanishka during a visit to Afghanistan. I then googled for the name and came across so many of them on LinkedIn;

http://www.linkedin.com/pub/dir/Kanishka/+/af-0-Afghanistan/
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rkumar said:
Name Kanishka is more common among Afghans even today than Indians. I was listening to speech by AB Vajpayee who mentioned about his experience of name Kanishka during a visit to Afghanistan. I then googled for the name and came across so many of them on LinkedIn;

http://www.linkedin.com/pub/dir/Kanishka/+/af-0-Afghanistan/
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I did the same and I found more Indians than Afghans. Though Kanishka and the Kushans must have had strong connections with Afghanistan, I think not many current day Afghans would be called Kanishka due to it being a non-Islamic name.
 
rkumar said:
How about Damyanti of Nal Damyani fame, Urmila of Lakshman Urmila ( & ofcourse Urmila Duhan) fame ? Here is a Damyanti and a Urmila from Afghanistan;

http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?authToken=-bKA&authType=name&goback=%2Enpv_244143987_*1_*1_name_*5bKA_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1&locale=in_ID&id=244143987
http://www.linkedin.com/profile/vie...1_*1&locale=en_US&id=128987099&authToken=D69k

Hope to fnd more of such names and post here

RK^2
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Kumar Sahib,

Are the names mentioned in the post under reference have some connection with Kanishaka or not ?

Thanks.
 
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There is lake Urmia (rhyming with my name Urmila) on the border of Iran and Turkey.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Urmia
rkumar said:
How about Damyanti of Nal Damyani fame, Urmila of Lakshman Urmila ( & ofcourse Urmila Duhan) fame ? Here is a Damyanti and a Urmila from Afghanistan;

http://www.linkedin.com/profile/vie...1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1&locale=in_ID&id=244143987
http://www.linkedin.com/profile/vie...1_*1&locale=en_US&id=128987099&authToken=D69k

Hope to fnd more of such names and post here

RK^2
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urmiladuhan said:
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There is lake Urmia (rhyming with my name Urmila) on the border of Iran and Turkey.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Urmia
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Interesting. History section of the link quoted by you mentions; " One of the early mentions of Lake Urmia is from the Assyrian records from 9th century BCE. There, in the records of Shalmaneser III (reign 858–824 BCE), two names are mentioned in the area of Lake Urmia: Parsuwash and Matai. It is not completely clear whether these referred to places or tribes or what their relationship was to the subsequent list of personal names and "kings". But Matais were Medes and linguistically the name Parsuwash matches the Old Persian word pārsa". Words Shalmaneser and Parsuwash attracted my attention. Shalmaneser sounds like our Maneser and Parsuwash might have some correlation wit Parsuram. May be name Persia for Iran has its origin in name Persuwash and Parsuram.

RK^2
 
@DrRajpalSingh
Doc, with due respect, I do not think the theme is limited to the KANISHKA alone, the essence of the thread is about similarities in the names in Afghanistan and India, despite religious differences. Kanishka is just being used an example for the elaboration.

@Rkumar: BTW, nice explanation sir jee. Thanks for sharing :)

DrRajpalSingh said:
Has someone something more to add on Kanishka, the theme of the thread.

Thanks and regards
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Anita (अनीता) is a common name in Germany. This is also the name of the daughter of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose who had married a German girl during his stay there. Her profile can be seen on this page - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Bose_Pfaff

During my days in Russia, I found that some ladies had their name as Meera. In Russian language, the word Meera (or Mira) means "peace" (शान्ति). Such similarities in names are found everywhere. But in the case of Afghanistan, word Kanishka is so common because of our past connections.

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vdhillon said:
@DrRajpalSingh
Doc, with due respect, I do not think the theme is limited to the KANISHKA alone, the essence of the thread is about similarities in the names in Afghanistan and India, despite religious differences. Kanishka is just being used an example for the elaboration.

@Rkumar: BTW, nice explanation sir jee. Thanks for sharing :)
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Thanks now add something substantial to carry forward the discussion.
 
dndeswal said:
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Anita (अनीता) is a common name in Germany. This is also the name of the daughter of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose who had married a German girl during his stay there. Her profile can be seen on this page - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Bose_Pfaff

During my days in Russia, I found that some ladies had their name as Meera. In Russian language, the word Meera (or Mira) means "peace" (शान्ति). Such similarities in names are found everywhere. But in the case of Afghanistan, word Kanishka is so common because of our past connections.

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Anita is a very common name among Christians world over. Meera is an interesting name and even Muslims in Pakistan use it. Meera is a well known Pakistani actress.

RK^2
 
rkumar said:
Interesting. History section of the link quoted by you mentions; " One of the early mentions of Lake Urmia is from the Assyrian records from 9th century BCE. There, in the records of Shalmaneser III (reign 858–824 BCE), two names are mentioned in the area of Lake Urmia: Parsuwash and Matai. It is not completely clear whether these referred to places or tribes or what their relationship was to the subsequent list of personal names and "kings". But Matais were Medes and linguistically the name Parsuwash matches the Old Persian word pārsa". Words Shalmaneser and Parsuwash attracted my attention. Shalmaneser sounds like our Maneser and Parsuwash might have some correlation wit Parsuram. May be name Persia for Iran has its origin in name Persuwash and Parsuram.

RK^2
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You mean records assigned to 9 B.C.E and not necessarily created in 9 B.C.E. As far as I know, there are no deciphered script records from anywhere in the world that are that old.
 
rkumar said:
Interesting. History section of the link quoted by you mentions; " One of the early mentions of Lake Urmia is from the Assyrian records from 9th century BCE[/U]. There, in the records of Shalmaneser III (reign 858�824 BCE), two names are mentioned in the area of Lake Urmia: Parsuwash and Matai. It is not completely clear whether these referred to places or tribes or what their relationship was to the subsequent list of personal names and "kings". But Matais were Medes and linguistically the name Parsuwash matches the Old Persian word pārsa". Words Shalmaneser and Parsuwash attracted my attention. Shalmaneser sounds like our Maneser and Parsuwash might have some correlation wit Parsuram. May be name Persia for Iran has its origin in name Persuwash and Parsuram.

RK^2
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You mean records assigned to 9 B.C.E and not necessarily created in 9 B.C.E. As far as I know, there are no deciphered script records from anywhere in the world that are that old.
 
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urmiladuhan said:
Kindly read 9 th century B.C.E instead of 9 B.C.E as also mentioned in the original post. Hope this removes the confusion.
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Some older than this dateline records of ancient 'Aryan kings' have been deciphered in Asian countries where names of some gods sworn by the kings signing the agreement have come to light. Exact dateline of these and Bogze Kooie inscriptions would be shared after their exact verification !
 
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