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Revision as of 09:24, 4 August 2016 by Uanfala (talk | contribs) (formatting as a given name article, +etymology)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff) For the 1999 Kannada film, see Upendra (film).Upendra (Devanagari: उपेन्द्र) is an Indian masculine given name. The meaning of the Sanskrit word upendra is "younger brother of Indra" and refers to either Krishna or Vishnu, who as a son of Aditi (or in the Vamana avatar) was born subsequently to Indra.
Persons with the name
- Upendra (actor), an Indian actor, director, producer, screenwriter, lyricist and singer
- Upendra Bhanja, 17th century poet of Odia literature
- Upendra Bhat, singer of Hindustani classical music
- Upendra Kumar (1941–2002), Indian music director mainly in Kannada and Oriya films
- Upendra Kushwaha (born 1960), Indian politician and minister
- Upendra Limaye (born 1969), Indian film actor
- Upendra Mahato, Nepali businessman
- Upendra Sidhaye (born 1980), Indian screenplay and story writer
- Upendra Yadav, (born 1960), Nepali politician
- P. Upendra or Parvathaneni Upendra (1936-2009), Indian politician and minister
- Priyanka Trivedi, Indian actress in Hindi, Telugu, Kannada, Tamil and Bengali films
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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