Sanskrit Tattoos

If you devour everything newsworthy about tattoos then you would know that the singer Rihanna has a misspelled Sanskrit tattoo!

For those of you who don’t know what Sanskrit tattoos are – they are tattoos written in Devanagari for the ancient language Sanskrit – which is an historical Indo-Aryan language. It is a dead language, which means it is no longer learned as a native language – and as such it does not change over time – which means the meaning of the words do NOT change – so you can be certain that there is only one meaning for your Sanskrit tattoo and it will never change its meaning like so many modern words.

Celebrities love these Sanskrit tattoos, and some of the celebrities who have Sanskrit tattoos are:

• Jessica Alba from Sin City – has “lotus flower” in Sanskrit on her right inner wrist
• Gillian Anderson from X-Files – has “every day” in Sanskrit on her right wrist
• David Beckham – has the misspelled “Vihctoria” tattooed on his left forearm
• Rihanna – has a sanskrit prayer reading “forgiveness, honesty, suppression and control” on her right hip which is supposedly misspelt

Sanskrit is incredibly beautiful to look at but if you are looking at getting a tattoo in this language be sure to get more than one translation done – just to be sure you are getting the meaning you want to. We have all heard the stories of someone getting a tattoo in another language thinking it means one thing and finding out it means something totally different – like the guy in America who thought his Chinese character tattoo meant “Love honor and obey” only to find out it meant “This boy is ugly”.

Because of the popularity of Sanskrit tattoos Hindus are now urging all tattoo artists to undertake basic training in the ancient Sanskrit language so there are no more embarassing misspelled tattoos – especially on celebrities!