"biig" > wrote in message ...
>
>> >>>>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
> The plantation was called Tara after the family land in
> Ireland...Sharon who has seen Gone With The Wind 9 times....

Good memory, Sharon. I've seen it a number of times, too.
Now, I'm wondering again -- wonder if the family 'land' was called Tara,
(terra=earth,dirt, etc) as we might call a ranch, "Bonanza," or if the
family name was Tara -- probably the former?
Dee Dee