Kanishka

[rkumar]

Name Kanishka is more common among Afghans even today than Indians. I was listening to speech by AB Vajpayee who mentioned about his experience of name Kanishka during a visit to Afghanistan. I then googled for the name and came across so many of them on LinkedIn;

http://www.linkedin.com/pub/dir/Kani...0-Afghanistan/

[rsdalal]

Interesting, may be you can post the link to the speech as well if it worth.
Welcome back Kalkhande Sahab to JL after a long time

Name Kanishka is more common among Afghans even today than Indians. I was listening to speech by AB Vajpayee who mentioned about his experience of name Kanishka during a visit to Afghanistan. I then googled for the name and came across so many of them on LinkedIn;

http://www.linkedin.com/pub/dir/Kani...0-Afghanistan/

[swaich]

Name Kanishka is more common among Afghans even today than Indians. I was listening to speech by AB Vajpayee who mentioned about his experience of name Kanishka during a visit to Afghanistan. I then googled for the name and came across so many of them on LinkedIn;

http://www.linkedin.com/pub/dir/Kani...0-Afghanistan/

I did the same and I found more Indians than Afghans. Though Kanishka and the Kushans must have had strong connections with Afghanistan, I think not many current day Afghans would be called Kanishka due to it being a non-Islamic name.

[urmiladuhan]

Interesting.

Name Kanishka is more common among Afghans even today than Indians. I was listening to speech by AB Vajpayee who mentioned about his experience of name Kanishka during a visit to Afghanistan. I then googled for the name and came across so many of them on LinkedIn;

http://www.linkedin.com/pub/dir/Kani...0-Afghanistan/

[rkumar]

How about Damyanti of Nal Damyani fame, Urmila of Lakshman Urmila ( & ofcourse Urmila Duhan) fame ? Here is a Damyanti and a Urmila from Afghanistan;

http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view...D&id=244143987
http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view...authToken=D69k

Hope to fnd more of such names and post here

RK^2

[DrRajpalSingh]

How about Damyanti of Nal Damyani fame, Urmila of Lakshman Urmila ( & ofcourse Urmila Duhan) fame ? Here is a Damyanti and a Urmila from Afghanistan;

http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view...D&id=244143987
http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view...authToken=D69k

Hope to fnd more of such names and post here

RK^2

Kumar Sahib,

Are the names mentioned in the post under reference have some connection with Kanishaka or not ?

Thanks.

[urmiladuhan]

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There is lake Urmia (rhyming with my name Urmila) on the border of Iran and Turkey.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Urmia

How about Damyanti of Nal Damyani fame, Urmila of Lakshman Urmila ( & ofcourse Urmila Duhan) fame ? Here is a Damyanti and a Urmila from Afghanistan;

http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view...D&id=244143987
http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view...authToken=D69k

Hope to fnd more of such names and post here

RK^2

[rkumar]

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There is lake Urmia (rhyming with my name Urmila) on the border of Iran and Turkey.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Urmia

Interesting. History section of the link quoted by you mentions; " One of the early mentions of Lake Urmia is from the Assyrian records from 9th century BCE. There, in the records of Shalmaneser III (reign 858–824 BCE), two names are mentioned in the area of Lake Urmia: Parsuwash and Matai. It is not completely clear whether these referred to places or tribes or what their relationship was to the subsequent list of personal names and "kings". But Matais were Medes and linguistically the name Parsuwash matches the Old Persian word pārsa". Words Shalmaneser and Parsuwash attracted my attention. Shalmaneser sounds like our Maneser and Parsuwash might have some correlation wit Parsuram. May be name Persia for Iran has its origin in name Persuwash and Parsuram.

RK^2

[DrRajpalSingh]

Has someone something more to add on Kanishka, the theme of the thread.

Thanks and regards

[urmiladuhan]

Interesting. History section of the link quoted by you mentions; " One of the early mentions of Lake Urmia is from the Assyrian records from 9th century BCE. There, in the records of Shalmaneser III (reign 858–824 BCE), two names are mentioned in the area of Lake Urmia: Parsuwash and Matai. It is not completely clear whether these referred to places or tribes or what their relationship was to the subsequent list of personal names and "kings". But Matais were Medes and linguistically the name Parsuwash matches the Old Persian word pārsa". Words Shalmaneser and Parsuwash attracted my attention. Shalmaneser sounds like our Maneser and Parsuwash might have some correlation wit Parsuram. May be name Persia for Iran has its origin in name Persuwash and Parsuram.

RK^2

You mean records assigned to 9 B.C.E and not necessarily created in 9 B.C.E. As far as I know, there are no deciphered script records from anywhere in the world that are that old.

[urmiladuhan]

Interesting. History section of the link quoted by you mentions; " One of the early mentions of Lake Urmia is from the Assyrian [U]records from 9th century BCE[/U]. There, in the records of Shalmaneser III (reign 858�824 BCE), two names are mentioned in the area of Lake Urmia: Parsuwash and Matai. It is not completely clear whether these referred to places or tribes or what their relationship was to the subsequent list of personal names and "kings". But Matais were Medes and linguistically the name Parsuwash matches the Old Persian word pārsa". Words Shalmaneser and Parsuwash attracted my attention. Shalmaneser sounds like our Maneser and Parsuwash might have some correlation wit Parsuram. May be name Persia for Iran has its origin in name Persuwash and Parsuram.

RK^2

You mean records assigned to 9 B.C.E and not necessarily created in 9 B.C.E. As far as I know, there are no deciphered script records from anywhere in the world that are that old.