Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Can anyone suggest some beautiful hindu/sanskrit house names?

and also please suggest any website where i can find names of houses.

Can anyone suggest some beautiful hindu/sanskrit house names?
It depends a lot on what you want your house to be "celebrated" for, of course, so I'm just going to throw out a lot of ideas and you'll have to pick from among them.





What you probably want for a house name is a Sanskrit compound word -- the first half of the compound word will be what you want to celebrate, and the second half will be a Sanskrit word meaning "house" or "place of".





For example (not a good house name, but a word you know), the Sanskrit word Himalaya comes from "hima" meaning "ice or snow" and "alaya" meaning "abode", so Himalaya is the place where there is ice or snow.





Thus, the word "devalaya" means "place of the deva (god)" or temple. This might be a suitable house name for you, depending on your religious leanings. You could also use a specific Hindu (or other) god as the first half, so getting "Ramalaya" or "Krishnalaya" or "Shivalaya".





A more secular personality might want to use "Shantigriha", from "shanti" meaning "peace" and "griha" meaning "house", so "house of peace".





Or you could use "Shrinivasa", which is a fairly common name (even for a person) in Sanskrit and its derived languages. "Shri" means "prosperity" or "beauty", and "nivasa" means "place where one resides", so "Shrinivasa" means "place where beauty (or wealth) resides". Its popularity as a person's name comes from the Hindu tradition that the goddess Shri is Vishnu's wife, and she is always at his side, so he is personally "Shrinivasa".





This just scratches the tip of the iceberg, as in Sanskrit there are dozens of words for "house" or "place of residence", and any of these could be the second half of a compound word, and you could put virtually anything that suited your fancy as the first half.
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