Seshadri or Sheshadri is an
Indian name
Indian names are based on a variety of systems and naming conventions, which vary from region to region. In Indian culture, names hold profound significance and play a crucial role in an individual's life. The importance of names is deeply ro ...
. Seshadri refers to
Sesha
Shesha (), also known by his epithets Sheshanaga () and Adishesha (), is a serpentine demigod (naga) and king of the serpents (Nagaraja), as well as a primordial being of creation in Hinduism. In the Puranas, Shesha is said to hold all the pl ...
, the
dasa
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of
Lord Vishnu
Vishnu (; , , ), also known as Narayana and Hari, is one of the principal deities of Hinduism. He is the supreme being within Vaishnavism, one of the major traditions within contemporary Hinduism, and the god of preservation (sattva).
Vish ...
, in the
Vaishnava
Vaishnavism () ), also called Vishnuism, is one of the major Hindu traditions, that considers Vishnu as the sole supreme being leading all other Hindu deities, that is, '' Mahavishnu''. It is one of the major Hindu denominations along wit ...
tradition of
Hinduism
Hinduism () is an Hypernymy and hyponymy, umbrella term for a range of Indian religions, Indian List of religions and spiritual traditions#Indian religions, religious and spiritual traditions (Sampradaya, ''sampradaya''s) that are unified ...
. Seshadri refers to
Sesha
Shesha (), also known by his epithets Sheshanaga () and Adishesha (), is a serpentine demigod (naga) and king of the serpents (Nagaraja), as well as a primordial being of creation in Hinduism. In the Puranas, Shesha is said to hold all the pl ...
, the Snake and Adri the mountain; also name of one of the seven mountains in Tirupati while we cross and reach the main mountain.
Notable people with the name include:
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C. S. Seshadri (1932–2020), Indian mathematician
* Ganesh Seshadri, known as 'Bid', singer of British
post punk
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group
The Monochrome Set
The Monochrome Set are an English post-punk/ new wave band, originally formed in London in January 1978. The most recent line-up consists of Bid, Andy Warren, Athen Ayren and Stephen Gilchrist.
History Original band: 1978–1985
The Mono ...
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Haricharan Seshadri (born 1987), Indian singer
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Janamanchi Seshadri Sarma (1882–1950), Telugu poet
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K. Seshadri Iyer (1845–1901), advocate who served as the Dewan of Mysore
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Kartik Seshadri (born 1957), sitarist, composer and teacher
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Meenakshi Seshadri
Meenakshi Seshadri Mysore (; née Seshadri; born 16 November 1963) as Shashikala Seshadri, is an Indian former actress and beauty pageant titleholder who worked primarily in Hindi, Telugu language, Telugu and Tamil language, Tamil films. Sesh ...
(born 1963), Indian film actress
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Nambirajan Seshadri (born 1962), Indian-American Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
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P. Sheshadri (born 1963), Kannada filmmaker and director
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Shekhar Sheshadri, Indian psychiatrist, brother of Meenakshi Seshadri
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Seshadri Srinivasa Ayyangar, Indian lawyer, politician and freedom-fighter
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Seshadri Swamigal
Seshadri Swamigal, also known as the "Saint with a Golden Hand", was an Indian holy man who was born in Kanchipuram, Tamil Nadu. He lived in Tiruvannamalai, Tiruvannaamalai, where he attained ''samadhi'' (a state of meditative consciousness).
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(1870–1929), Indian saint
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Vijay Seshadri
Vijay Seshadri (born 13 February 1954) is an American poet, essayist and literary critic based in Brooklyn.
Vijay won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, for '' 3 Sections''.
Early life
Vijay's parents immigrated to the United States from Bang ...
(born 1954), Brooklyn-based poet, essayist and literary critic
Other uses
* Seshadri, one of the seven hills of the
Tirumala Venkateswara Temple
The Venkateswara Temple of Tirumala or Sri Venkateswara Swami Temple is a Hindu temple situated in the hills of Tirumala, Tirupati Urban Mandal in the Tirupati district of Andhra Pradesh, India. The temple is dedicated to Venkateswara, a for ...
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Seshadri constant In algebraic geometry, a Seshadri constant is an invariant of an ample line bundle ''L'' at a point ''P'' on an algebraic variety. It was introduced by Demailly to measure a certain ''rate of growth'', of the tensor powers of ''L'', in terms of th ...
, in algebraic geometry is an invariant of an ample line bundle L at a point P on an algebraic variety
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Seshadripuram
Seshadripuram is a residential and commercial locality in central Bangalore
Bengaluru, also known as Bangalore (List of renamed places in India#Karnataka, its official name until 1 November 2014), is the Capital city, capital and largest ...
, residential locality in the central part of the city of Bengaluru
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Padma Seshadri Bala Bhavan
Padma Seshadri Bala Bhavan (PSBB) is a group of schools located in Chennai, India. The school was founded by educationalist Rajalakshmi Parthasarathy (1925–2019), Vanjulam Chari and many other ladies of Nungambakkam Ladies Recreation Club (NL ...
, group of schools located in Chennai, India
See also
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Seshagiri
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