Meaning of the name SHARVANTHI

[Mohan P]

Someone in our Tahanjavur Marathi  grup in Facebook wanted to know the meaning of her name SHARVANTHI.  I typed the word w/o error.

Pls help.

Thanks.

P.Mohan

[ajit.gargeshwari]

The baby girl name Sravanthi comes from the Indian word which means,
"Continious Flow." Indian word which means, "continuous flow ."

http://www.newbabynames.in/babynamedetails.jsp?name=Sravanthi&id=5699

Name Sravanthi generally means Oozing knowledge, Name Sravanthi is a
Feminine (or Girl) name.
Sravanthi , free flowing. beautiful. outstanding friend. Free-Flowing
river, Independent. And most of all, a great listener. Some examples :
sravanthi as in a River

Please see

http://groups.google.com/group/samskrita/browse_thread/thread/972a597570a9199c?hl=en

Regards
Ajit Gargeshwari

[Mohan P]

 Thank you,  ajit.gargeshwari.But SHARVANTHI and SRAVANTHI are same or different?

Regards

P.Mohan

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[Hnbhat B.R.]

स्रवन्ती नगनिम्नगा 

परशक्त्या स्रवन्ती सा भूयात्कुंभी शिवाय मे।।४।। स्
रवन्ती सा हतापाया पापहारिसरस्वती।।
पुनातु सा ह्यवाग्वासा पापहन्त्री सरस्वती।।५।।

The word स्रवन्ती  as a noun is synonym for the river along with others according to the Amarakosha.

As an adjective, it is used with any noun names of rivers or anything flowing.  This is the strict meaning for the word which is derived as a present participle from the verb sru - to flow. With expanded meaning, it can be used to mean anything one can imagine.Dictionaries will  give more meanings if you search under sravat- stem.

The other word asked for is least possible to be a correct sanskrit word, unless one tries hard to establish it to be one like the other thread had many attempts to prove kimaya to be sanskrit.




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[Nityanand Misra]

Dear Sh. Mohan

What do you mean you typed it without error? You may have have typed it as the person spells it, but that does not mean it is without error. It is highly unlikely that the "i" at the end is the short vowel, and furthermore you have not specified if by TH you mean त् or थ्. So if one wants to say that they have typed it without error, they better type it in Devnagari or using some standard transliteration scheme like IAST.

Coming to the meaning, what Ajit Mahodaya has explained is the meaning of the word sravantī (स्रवन्ती), which is formed from the root स्रु (स्रु गतौ, Dhatupaatha 22.42, भ्वादिगण परस्मैपदी meaning to flow, to spread or to move), as Dr. Bhat also pointed out. The suffix śatṛ is used in the sense of present participle, and the suffix ṅīṣ forms the feminine. Monier Williams gives several meanings for sravantī including streaming or flowing, a river and a herb.

स्रु + शतृ + ङीष् = स्रवन्ती
sru + śatṛ + ṅīṣ = sravantī


If the name is śarvantī (शर्वन्ती), I differ with Dr. Bhat, it is a valid Samskrita form that can be formed from the root शर्व् (शर्व हिंसायाम्, Dhatupaatha 15.76, भ्वादिगण परस्मैपदी) which means "to injure/maim/kill). Radhakantadeb in Śabdakalpadrumaḥ cites Kavikalpadruma for a second meaning which is गतौ (meaning "to go or to move"), which is also listed by Apte. Like in case of the previous word, the suffix śatṛ is used in the sense of present participle, and the suffix ṅīṣ forms the feminine. The meaning then would be "one who kills or destroys", referring to goddess Durgā or Kālī, or in the sense of second meaning of moving, it could also mean "one who flows or moves about", or a river", just like in the case of स्रु गतौ.

शर्व् + शतृ + ङीष् = शर्वन्ती
śarv + śatṛ + ṅīṣ = śarvantī

Thanks, Nityanand

P.Mohan

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[Mohan P]

Thank you  Dr Baht.

Regards

P.Mohan

[DEV RAJ]

स्रवन्ती

वापीष्विव स्रवन्तीषु वनेषूपवनेष्विव।
सार्थाः स्वैरन् स्वकीयेषु चेरुर्वेश्मस्विवाद्रिषु॥ १७-६४
(रघुवंशम्)

देव्

[Hnbhat B.R.]

Thanks Sri Nithyananda for the best suggestion. As for the names, from the verb शर्व root, the word itself gives the popular name of शर्व, शिव स्थाणु - meaning the destroyer God, whose feminine counterpart is known as शर्वाणी meaning the same as the name of the Goddess. than शर्वन्ती which also could be explained as such with any context as the present participle of the word as adjective or noun conventionally used as such रूढ word for the Goddess.

With regards

[Hnbhat B.R.]

A postscript.

Further, meaning is dependent on the language the word is used and unless the language in which the word is sought, nothing can be said precisely. Since our group is "samskrita" related group, the first occurs the language संस्कृत and everyone would be wishing to explain the meaning within their knowledge of it at first. But names need not have to be particular to any language and one can call by the name Dittha which need not have any meaning, but just to identify the person/thing from others by his/its name. Looking for the meaning of the names itself seems to be very interesting, if not absurd according to their aptitude towards it.

Thus chemmandhi poove means the flower known by that name in the language, which is a corrupt form of or related to the word सेवन्तिका - diminutive form of सेवन्ती which could be grammatically incorrect form derived from the root to serve सेवृ  सेवायाम् which could not normally शतृ suffix like स्रवन्ती which is perfect. chemmandhi is common name for chutney also in the native languages Tamil or Malayalam. So trans-naming ceremony and inventing their meaning may result in curious findings.