CUKKEMANE

Sunday, January 25, 2009

Adda Hesaru (Pet Name)
We have come across several instances of a person having more than one name. In many communities or regions of India we name the child with one name only, unlike the practice of western countries. Even where a person has more than one name we come across the cases of Pet Names. We observe that the successive generations in a family have the practice of repeating the forefather’s names and this is one of the main reasons for the prevalence of Pet Name even now.
I have a collection of Adda Hesaru of our family members, which may not be exhaustive, but some are quite cute. Pet names bring me fond memories of the persons I know.
Generations:
1: Sankanna: One of the earlier hand written family trees mentions Shankaranarayana as Sankanna.
6: Aichikkayya: C.R.Subraya was popularly called Aichikkayya by his nephews/nieces. His contemporaries also called him as Karanikara Subraya since he was a Karanika or Accountant in Revenue Department of Kodagu.
7: Anna: C.V.Seetharama Rao was the eldest among his generation and his children copied from elders and were addressing him as anna.
Thammanna: C.S.Shivarama was younger to only a few but anna to many of his generation and was called Thammanna. Some times is referred to as Mooguru Thammanna or Kakotu Thammanna as there was another Thammanna among the cousins.
Puttani: C.S.Gopalakrishna brother of Shivarama, Kakotuparambu.
Thammanna: C.Lakshminarayana Rao was also referred to as Delhi Thammanna since he was serving at MES Accounts in Delhi.
Papa: C.S.Ramachandra.
Puttani: C.Krishnamurthy.
Mari: C.S.Parameshwara Rao.
Sannappa: C.S.Vishweshwara Rao.
Thangi: C.R.Kamala.
Vishu: N.S.Govindasharma brother of N.S.Ramadasa
8: Muthu: C.G.Narasimhamurthy.
Thamma: C.S.Shreekara.
Thangi: C.S.Gangamma.
Chami: C.S.Subramanya.
Raja: C.N.Subramanya.
Puttakka: C.S.Chandramathi is one of the younger sisters of her generation.
Puttanna: C.S.Venkatachalapathy. Even though called Puttanna he is one of the youngest in his generation.
Papu: C.B.Ramamurthy.
Mari: C.C.Venkatalakshmi.
Baby: C.B.Muralidhara
Raja: Dr.Ravi Subramanya N.K.
9: Puttanna: C.N.Gopalakrishna.