Tamil meaning of "kOdai"
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• July 24, 1998
I was browsing the archives and came upon an article written last year by Sri T.S. Sundararajan: 'kOdai' and 'gOdA' ------------------ 'kOdai' was the first name periyAzhvAr gave to ANDAL. This Tamil word stands for 'a string of flowers'. In the golden quadrangle of tirukkuRunkuDi, vAnamAmalai, AzhvAr-tirunagari and SrIvilliputtUr, girl-children were commonly named 'mAlA-nAcchiyAr'. When the Tamil name was Sanskritised as 'gOdA', it yielded a rainbow of meanings. In Sanskrit, the root 'gAuh' means, inter alia, the 'vEdam'; hence, 'gOdA' signifies one who gives of the 'vEdam'. The full text of the article is: http://thondar.busi.utc.edu/bhakti/archives/aug97/0002.html aDiyEn rAmAnuja dAsan Mani
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