Pushkarni any translation into English ?

Who has a good English language translation for the word "Pushkarni" as in "Abhishek Pushkarni Sarovar" found at Vaishali (Bihar).
I know that Abhishek can be translated as "initiation/intronisation" and Sarovar is any body of water (pond, lake or even ocean as Mahasarovar) but could not find yet online a good translation for Pushkarni.
Many thanks for your help

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chilloutab2 · 41-45, M

Loosely translated, the word Pushkar can mean Lotus...which is perhaps just one of its meanings.
So Pushkarni here most probably means a lake where lotus flowers bloom... or a lake that makes lotus flowers bloom. The word "karni" means "doer" in most contexts.. (as in, let's say, "mangal-karni"... literally "good/welfare doer"). So here, Pushkarni means "Lotus doer" which seems to be describing the Sarovar as a place that makes lotus flowers grow.

Also, when it comes to the word Abhishek... I think it's French that uses intronisation, whereas the English equivalent is "coronation".

So "Abhishek Pushkarni Sarovar" is better translated literally into "coronation lotus-growing lake"

Edit: Pushkar is actually Blue Lotus in Sanskrit... so "coronation blue lotus-growing lake"

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Dodger2025 · 70-79, M

@chilloutab2

We went back to Abhishek Pushkarni Sarovar this morning but we had PINK Lotuses blooming instead of BLUE ones, don't know the meaning of this change of colour (if there is one)... may be blue lotuses come later in the seasons

chilloutab2 · 41-45, M

@Dodger2025
I'm not surprised, actually. The blue lotus is very rare... it's only found in certain climatic conditions. The normal, commonly-found lotus is pink.

I'm sure that with climate change and global warming, whatever conditions existed for blue lotuses to bloom when this waterbody was named many eons ago, have long since disappeared, so now its conditions are only fit for the common pink lotus.

Dodger2025 · 70-79, M

@chilloutab2 thank you for the commentary. Some would say Kali Yuga in full swing means no more blue lotus for us " living in interesting times" LOL

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