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Subject: Re: Naina
Author: তন্ময় ভট   (guest, 68.166.243.109)
Date: March 23, 2005 at 11:43:10 AM
Reply to: Naina by Bounty
From Sanskrit nayana which means leading, but only the specific use in the sense of `the eyes' (that organ which leads us), or the pupil of the eye, survives in classical usage and in modern languages.

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