Kanaka (given name)

Kanaka is an Indian given name. The Sanskrit word kanaka has the primary meaning "gold".[1] Notable persons with the name include:

Kanaka (actress) (born 1973), South Indian film actress
Kanaka Dasa (1509 – 1609), Kannada-language poet, philosopher, musician and composer
Kanaka Ha Ma (born 1964), Kannada-language writer
Kanaka Herath, Shri Lankan politician
Kanaka Srinivasan, Indian classical dancer
T. S. Kanaka (born 1932), Indian neurosurgeon

References

Monier-Williams, Monier (1899). A Sanskrit-English Dictionary: Etymologically and Philologically Arranged with Special Reference to Cognate Indo-European Languages. Oxford: Clarendon Press. OCLC 685239912.

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