{"id":5374,"date":"2014-06-20T06:12:29","date_gmt":"2014-06-20T10:12:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/whitehindu\/?p=5374"},"modified":"2015-03-13T22:31:29","modified_gmt":"2015-03-14T02:31:29","slug":"katy-perry-and-sanskrit-tattoos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/whitehindu\/2014\/06\/katy-perry-and-sanskrit-tattoos\/","title":{"rendered":"Katy Perry and Sanskrit Tattoos"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Reading my Cosmo magazine this month (yes, I love Cosmo. Shut up) I noticed Devanagari on Katy Perry\u2019s arm. The image wasn\u2019t clear enough for me to make it out.<\/p>\n

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So I went online to find out what her tattoo is (or is supposed to be, anyway).<\/p>\n

Interetingly, the two sites that came up first in a search don\u2019t transliterate the script correctly at all.<\/p>\n

Look at the close up image here:<\/p>\n

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http:\/\/www.popstartats.com\/katy-perry-tattoos\/sanskrit\/#<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Notice that it says \u201cAnugacchatu Pravahan\u201d which that site<\/a> gives as \u201cAnuugacchati<\/strong> Pravaha<\/strong>.\u201d But that\u2019s a pretty minor difference when you look at this site<\/a> that seems to claim the Devanagari is:\u00a0\u092a\u094d\u0930\u0935\u093e\u0939\u0947\u0923 \u0938\u0939 \u0917\u091a\u094d\u091b Yeah, that would be \u201cPravahena Saha Gaccha\u201d Some similarity, but not actually at all the tattoo in the picture.<\/p>\n

Both sites say the tattoo means \u201cGo with the flow.\u201d I don\u2019t know Sanskrit, so I can\u2019t say if that\u2019s true or not (but chances are if you\u2019re getting a tattoo in a language you yourself don\u2019t know you are not likely to get quite the right thing!)<\/p>\n

So, my friends who know Sanskrit, does her tattoo say what she thinks it does?<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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