Narada

[Tarek Wani]

An ethnographer friend working in Madhya Pradesh has
mailed me a file of unusual names of gods and goddesses.
Here is the list:

cakhIb (god-child)
vakaH  (tree)
pautunob
kUl
palenk
itahamna
hibalba
ihacel (moon)

Would any linguists care to comment on their etymology?

-TW

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