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in reply to a message by Shalini
It helps if you give more information than just the name: something like ethnicity, gender, language, religion, last name ...
That saif, there is a Duwaraka, daughter of the well-known Prabhakaran, who is of Hindu Tamil heritage. I do not know Tamil, but the name sounds remarkably like the Sanskrit word dvArakA. From dvR, to bar, dvAra means a door, and dvArakA means the (many-) gated town, and was, in mythology, the name of the capital of the anarta kingdom of the Yadu confederacy built during the time of Krishna, the cowherd pastoral god identified since about the 7th century BC with the viSNu, the protector among the Hindu trinity; and, along with his true love, his aunt by relation, rAdhA, wife of ayana, the center of adoration for a large sect among the Hindus today, including the so-called Hare Krishna movement in the U.S. The mythological town was submerged in the sea, but there is currently a city by that name in Gujarat (also, elsewhere).
That saif, there is a Duwaraka, daughter of the well-known Prabhakaran, who is of Hindu Tamil heritage. I do not know Tamil, but the name sounds remarkably like the Sanskrit word dvArakA. From dvR, to bar, dvAra means a door, and dvArakA means the (many-) gated town, and was, in mythology, the name of the capital of the anarta kingdom of the Yadu confederacy built during the time of Krishna, the cowherd pastoral god identified since about the 7th century BC with the viSNu, the protector among the Hindu trinity; and, along with his true love, his aunt by relation, rAdhA, wife of ayana, the center of adoration for a large sect among the Hindus today, including the so-called Hare Krishna movement in the U.S. The mythological town was submerged in the sea, but there is currently a city by that name in Gujarat (also, elsewhere).
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