One of the readers asked for the meaning of Jahandost so I thought I should have it as a separate post so that it is more likely that everyone gets a chance to see it. The word Jahandost is from Farsi or Persian and is a concatenation of two words: Jahan means the universe and dost means friend. Hence Jahandost is the friend of the universe. An equivalent word in the Hindi language is Vishvamitra who is considered to be one of the greatest sages of ancient India and one of the authors of Rigveda. In Allama Muhammad Iqbal (also known as Iqbal Lahori) book Javed Nama Jahandost is one of the persons that he meet in his journey.
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Interesting……nice to know the explanation of Jahandost.
intresting , nice to know the meaning now since I did ask you .
Jahandost is also a Urdu and Hindi word. I would say Jahandost will raise less, if any, eyebrows, compared to Viswamitra.
Thank you people.
Manas you are very correct. :p
So you are Indian, are you?
Manas, actually no but I am familiar with Indian history lets just say.
I am not very clear. But I have to respect your anonymity.
Manas, by that I meant that I am not from India.
O no, that’s not what I meant. I was thinking about where you are from, but didn’t ask.