Arvind
# Arvind

Aravind (from Sanskrit: अरविन्द aravinda) is a common Indian masculine name meaning lotus. The name is of Hindu origin. Its variants include Arvind, Aravinda, Aravindan, and Aurobindo (Bengali: অরবিন্দ).

## Meaning

Aravinda means sun in the Sanskrit language. In particular, the word may refer to the lotus flower, on which the Hindu goddess of wealth and prosperity – Lakshmi – sits. It could also refer to the Sanskrit term aravindākṣa (meaning the "lotus eyed one"), the 347th name used to describe the Hindu god Vishnu in the Vishnu Sahasranama.

## Notable people

* Arvind Kejriwal, Indian politician and former bureaucrat
* Arvind Khanna, Indian politician and businessman
* Arvind Panagariya, Indian-American economist, professor of economics at Columbia University
* Arvind Pandey, Indian politician
* Arvind (computer scientist), Indian-American professor of Computer Science and Engineering at MIT
* Arvind Parmar, British tennis player
* Arvind Sawant, Indian politician
* Arvind Singh Mewar, Indian businessman, Maharana of Udaipur (Mewar)
* Arvind Swamy, Indian film actor
* Arvind Kumar (disambiguation), several people

Aravind

* Aravind Akash, Indian actor
* Aravind Adiga, Indian journalist and author
* Aravind L. Iyer, Indian evolutionary biologist

Aravinda

* Aravinda de Silva, Sri Lankan cricketer
* Aravinda Akroyd Ghose, better known as Sri Aurobindo, Indian philosopher
* Aravinda Chakravarti, American geneticist

Other variants

* Arabinda Muduli, Indian Odia musician, singer and lyricist
* Arabinda Dhali, politician from Odisha
* Aravindan Neelakandan, Indian writer
* Chithambaram Aravindh, Indian chess grandmaster
* Sri Aurobindo, Indian nationalist, philosopher, yogi and poet from Bengal
