Going back to Sri Ari Sitaramayyaga'ri telugu nama'vaLi, I have
a few questions:
1) ra'ma'rav, venkaTara'v, hanumanthara'v - when did this "ra'v or ra'vu
or ra'u" come? Where did it come from?
2) Who borrowed it from whom? Was it the Marathis or Kannadigas or
Andhras?
3) Is this "ra'v" related to "ra'ya" or "ra'yaDu" or "ra'yuDu" or
ra'yalu"?
As all of us know, apart from Andhras, others have this "ra'v" suffix
in their names and once anyone sees a "ra'v" name, he/she thinks that
the person bearing the name "ra'v" is by default from Andhra
(even though that person is not Telugu Nadu or of Andhra origin).
side kick:---->
My father used to tell me that his teacher used to punish
irresponsible students saying "hisTariilu ra'vu, siviksulu ra'vu,
lEngvEgilu ra'vu, lekkalu ra'vu - pEruki venkaTara'vu - ceyyi paTTu."
Any light (la'mtaru - cimminii tuDici) on this?
--pa'lana
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Namastee:
One School of thought is Rao name came into existence during the british rule.
It is the title given to the civil servants during their time.
In karnataka and maharastra rao last name usually tells which caste they belong to.
My ancesters carried the name of rao as their first name, today we rarely see anyone
given the name of rao, including my two sons whose names are harsha and varun.
Perhaps it was a pride to have the first name as rao during mid and early ninth and
twentieth centuries.
Kumar Chunduru