well i should give the complete picture then to further confound:-) my full name is Yeddanapudi Lakshmi Arudra Rama Radhika (but I have abbreviated all of this dogma down to Y.R. Radhika for a long, long time). The Lakshmi is homage to a family practice of giving the eldest daughter a name synonymous with prosperity. Arudra is the name of the nakshatra under which i was born and it was prophesied that i would be ungrateful, a thief (does gluttony count?) and work in lowly jobs (have translated that to mean part-time/consulting jobs today)..Rama is another name for Lakshmi hence double the wealth supposedly !
my brother's name sounds like that of the principal to whom you refer-Yeddanapudi Venkatasubramanaiam Rajeevlochana. Venkatasubramaniam is a Yeddanapudi family tradition to bestow the name of the lord on the eldest son in a family. Rajeevlochana is another name for Vishnu. he writes his name as Rajeev Yeddanapudi now to avoid all such explanations but in his far-off childhood was known to answer the phone with "Subbu here'!!! On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 12:27 PM, Mahesh Murthy <mahesh.mur...@gmail.com>wrote: > > > > > > > not really. my name is Yeddanapudi Radhika as in Radhika of Yeddanapudi > > village with no father's name in between. Neither does my brother carry > my > > dad's name nor do any of my cousins on the Yeddanapudi side. > > > I guess there is some variability here. My school principal in Hyderabad > was > Y.R.R.P.Raju with 4 initials before the name > > And there is Vangipurappu Venkata Sai Lakshman with 3. > > I was under the impression that the median occurrence was 2 initials before > the name. > > And less frequent 1 initial before the name, like you. > > Maybe I'm wrong. >
