"Kamala Ganesh" > wrote in message
news:B8xLf.30276$gh4.14906@trnddc06...
> Dee Randall wrote:
>> "Tara" > wrote in message
>> ...
>>
>>>On Wed, 22 Feb 2006 20:10:32 -0500, "Dee Randall"
> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Tara, I have to agree with you. I love cabbage in my vegetable soup,
>>>>but DH
>>>>doesn't. Since I'm such a wuss, I never put cabbage in the soup. I
>>>>could
>>>>eat fried cabbage with a little onion in it, almost every day, too. DH
>>>>buys
>>>>cabbage because he says he's going to make cole slaw. Usually it just
>>>>sits
>>>>in the frig until it's thrown out. I want my fried cabbage!
>>>
>>>Funny -- my husband loves cooked cabbage but he hates cole slaw.
>>>
>>>
>>>>Tara, is your name an "India" name? I just got thru watching a film and
>>>>the
>>>>person's name was Tara.
>>>
>>>I'm named after Tara in Gone With the Wind. What movie did you see?
>>>
>>>Tara
>>
>>
>> I know this will not be funny, but its how minds can play tricks. I
>> bought this movie and had it around for a long, long time before I
>> watched it the other night. I had been referring to this movie as "Tara,
>> queen of the Elephants." Here is an excerpt I just found stating that the
>> elephant keeper's name was Parbati, not Tara. "Author Mark Shand and
>> Parbati Barua (a Rajah's daughter and elephant driver) make a 300-mile
>> journey by elephant through the forests of India."
>>
>> I confused her name with a famous elephant named Tara. Oh, my.
>> Sorry, Tara.
>> What a case I am.
>> Dee Dee
>>
>>
>>
>
> Tara in Sanskrit means "Star", it is a common girl's name in India. There
> is also a female boddhisattava Tara - the Goddess of compassion in
> Buddhism, it is a Tibetan name too. So, Dee Dee, you were not way off in
> assuming it could be an Indian name.
>
> What does "Tara" mean in the western context?
>
> - Kamala.

Perhaps Tar in the context of Gone with the Wind is a *******ization of word
terra, or land-earth. Wasn't their land called, Tara?
Here I go again - spouting off.
Dee Dee