Re: OT: Is Amrita an Indian name?

Mark J. Reed wrote at 2006-01-04 12:50:18 (-0500)
 > On 1/4/06, Andreas Johansson <andjo@...> wrote:
 > > A dream of mine last night involved an Indian girl called
 > > "Amrita". I can't seem to recall having heard the name IRL, but
 > > it does sound pretty Indic to me, so I thought I'd ask whether
 > > it's an actual name I've snatched up unconsciously somewhere, or
 > > it's just my brain indulging in some freelance conlanging.
 > >
 > I've only encountered it as the name of a web page templating
 > system which uses the Ruby programming language (and which doesn't
 > seem to have a FAQ indicating the source of the name).  A web
 > search reveals that it is also a tantric term for female ejaculate
 > (gotta love that tantric stuff), so it probably is Indic in origin.

I can't, of course, speak with any confidence on the history of the
word in Andreas's mind, but it certainly sounds like a cognate of the
Sanskrit _am