NAME FOR A BABY GIRL

[kichenas at math.umn.edu]

A. Thrasher is quite right to point out that there is at times
a risk of confusion between `free' and `libertine.' As the
latter word indicates, this difficulty is not specific to India.

One may suggest the classical Tat'A-takai for an invincible
female warrior woman. It would, of course, carry the connotation
of a tomboy, but she turned out fine anyway...

Regarding Y. K. Malaiya's suggestion of PArvati, etc...,
it is important to stress that all names of Sakti or
Lakshmi etc..., imply a reference to the ultimate freedom,
one which is not defined as the removal of a restraint
(what could possibly restrain Brahman in the first place?).




                                Satyanad Kichenassamy
                                School of Mathematics
                                University of Minnesota
                                kichenas at math.umn.edu