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This pancocojams post presents biographical information about Senator Kamala Harris (D-California) and information about the meaning and pronunciation of the Hindu name "Kamala".
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Thanks to all those who are quoted in this post.
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INFORMATION ABOUT SENATOR KAMALA HARRIS
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamala_Harris
"Kamala Devi Harris (/ˈkɑːmələ/ KAH-mə-lə; born October 20, 1964) is an American attorney, politician, and member of the Democratic Party. She has been the junior United States Senator for California since 2017, and she previously served as the 32nd Attorney General of California from 2011 to 2017, and as District Attorney of San Francisco from 2004 to 2011. On January 21, 2019, she officially announced her campaign to run for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States in the 2020 United States presidential election.
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Kamala Harris was born on October 20, 1964, in Oakland, California, to a Tamil Indian mother and a Jamaican father. Her mother, Shyamala Gopalan Harris, was a breast cancer scientist who immigrated to the United States from Madras (now Chennai) in 1960.[6][7] Her father, Donald Harris, is a Stanford University economics professor who emigrated from Jamaica in 1961 for graduate study in economics at University of California, Berkeley.[8][9][10]
Her name, Kamala, comes from the Sanskrit word for the lotus flower. Her family lived in Berkeley, California, where both of her parents attended graduate school.[11] She was close to her maternal grandfather, P. V. Gopalan, an Indian diplomat.[7][12] As a child, she frequently visited her extended family in the Besant Nagar neighborhood of Chennai, Tamil Nadu.[13] Harris grew up going to both a black Baptist church and a Hindu temple.[14] She has one younger sister, Maya Harris.[15][16] They both sang in a Baptist choir.[17]"...
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INFORMATION ABOUT THE HINDU NAME "KAMALA"
From https://www.behindthename.com/name/kamala
"Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Hinduism, Tamil, Indian, Kannada, Telugu, Hindi, Nepali
Scripts: कमला, कमल(Sanskrit) கமலா(Tamil) ಕಮಲಾ(Kannada) కమలా(Telugu) कमला(Hindi, Nepali)
Meaning & History:
Means "lotus" or "pale red" in Sanskrit. This is a transcription of both the feminine form कमला and the masculine form कमल. This is the name of one of the Krittikas, or Pleiades, in Hindu epic the 'Mahabharata'. It is also another name of the Hindu goddess Lakshmi.
Related Names:
Masculine Forms: Kamal(Tamil) Kamal(Kannada) Kamal(Telugu) Kamal(Hindi) Kamal(Nepali)"
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Read the comment given below by Parth Vasa for another meaning.
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HOW KAMALA HARRIS PRONOUNCES HER NAME
1.
From https://twitter.com/KamalaHarris/status/787463523915796480
"Kamala Harris
Verified account
@KamalaHarris
I’ve heard people say my name in different ways. Some #KidsForKamala are here to show you how it’s done!
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Note that video was embedded on that twitter page on October 15, 2016 when Kamala Harris was running in California for the United States Senate.
Here are two tweets from that page:
"Kamala Patel
@kamala_patel
15 Oct 2016
Replying to @KamalaHarris
this is very handy for all of us named Kamala! And a great candidate for the senate!"
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"Alys L. Stuart
@AlysBbt
1 Feb 2018
I first came across the name Kamala in the book "Siddhartha." She was the woman who taught the eventual lBuddah(sp) of the ways of life and expanded his vision."
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2. How to Pronounce Kamala Harris
Lee Writing Services, Published on Sep 29, 2018
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A HINDU PRONUNCIATION OF THE NAME "KAMALA"
From https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-kamala-harris-name_us_5c53bbb1e4b0bdf0e7d9b251
[comment from the discussion thread for that Huffington post article]
Parth Vasa
"Its an Indian name. Strictly it is pronounced as "come-la". Not "come-a-la" which actually means clever thing or magical.
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This pancocojams post presents biographical information about Senator Kamala Harris (D-California) and information about the meaning and pronunciation of the Hindu name "Kamala".
The content of this post is presented for onomastics purposes.
All copyrights remain with their owners.
Thanks to all those who are quoted in this post.
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INFORMATION ABOUT SENATOR KAMALA HARRIS
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamala_Harris
"Kamala Devi Harris (/ˈkɑːmələ/ KAH-mə-lə; born October 20, 1964) is an American attorney, politician, and member of the Democratic Party. She has been the junior United States Senator for California since 2017, and she previously served as the 32nd Attorney General of California from 2011 to 2017, and as District Attorney of San Francisco from 2004 to 2011. On January 21, 2019, she officially announced her campaign to run for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States in the 2020 United States presidential election.
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Kamala Harris was born on October 20, 1964, in Oakland, California, to a Tamil Indian mother and a Jamaican father. Her mother, Shyamala Gopalan Harris, was a breast cancer scientist who immigrated to the United States from Madras (now Chennai) in 1960.[6][7] Her father, Donald Harris, is a Stanford University economics professor who emigrated from Jamaica in 1961 for graduate study in economics at University of California, Berkeley.[8][9][10]
Her name, Kamala, comes from the Sanskrit word for the lotus flower. Her family lived in Berkeley, California, where both of her parents attended graduate school.[11] She was close to her maternal grandfather, P. V. Gopalan, an Indian diplomat.[7][12] As a child, she frequently visited her extended family in the Besant Nagar neighborhood of Chennai, Tamil Nadu.[13] Harris grew up going to both a black Baptist church and a Hindu temple.[14] She has one younger sister, Maya Harris.[15][16] They both sang in a Baptist choir.[17]"...
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Italics were added to highlight this sentence.
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INFORMATION ABOUT THE HINDU NAME "KAMALA"
From https://www.behindthename.com/name/kamala
"Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Hinduism, Tamil, Indian, Kannada, Telugu, Hindi, Nepali
Scripts: कमला, कमल(Sanskrit) கமலா(Tamil) ಕಮಲಾ(Kannada) కమలా(Telugu) कमला(Hindi, Nepali)
Meaning & History:
Means "lotus" or "pale red" in Sanskrit. This is a transcription of both the feminine form कमला and the masculine form कमल. This is the name of one of the Krittikas, or Pleiades, in Hindu epic the 'Mahabharata'. It is also another name of the Hindu goddess Lakshmi.
Related Names:
Masculine Forms: Kamal(Tamil) Kamal(Kannada) Kamal(Telugu) Kamal(Hindi) Kamal(Nepali)"
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Read the comment given below by Parth Vasa for another meaning.
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HOW KAMALA HARRIS PRONOUNCES HER NAME
1.
From https://twitter.com/KamalaHarris/status/787463523915796480
"Kamala Harris
Verified account
@KamalaHarris
I’ve heard people say my name in different ways. Some #KidsForKamala are here to show you how it’s done!
-snip-
Note that video was embedded on that twitter page on October 15, 2016 when Kamala Harris was running in California for the United States Senate.
Here are two tweets from that page:
"Kamala Patel
@kamala_patel
15 Oct 2016
Replying to @KamalaHarris
this is very handy for all of us named Kamala! And a great candidate for the senate!"
**
"Alys L. Stuart
@AlysBbt
1 Feb 2018
I first came across the name Kamala in the book "Siddhartha." She was the woman who taught the eventual lBuddah(sp) of the ways of life and expanded his vision."
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2. How to Pronounce Kamala Harris
Lee Writing Services, Published on Sep 29, 2018
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A HINDU PRONUNCIATION OF THE NAME "KAMALA"
From https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-kamala-harris-name_us_5c53bbb1e4b0bdf0e7d9b251
[comment from the discussion thread for that Huffington post article]
Parth Vasa
"Its an Indian name. Strictly it is pronounced as "come-la". Not "come-a-la" which actually means clever thing or magical.
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