Dee Randall wrote:
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> "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
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Actually, the part about the Irish land being Tara came from the
sequal, where Scarlett goes to Ireland after Rhett leaves her after
Melanie's death. It was the actual name of some land there, as in
possibly a fictional county called Tara. I don't know if there is
actually a county called that. ........Sharon