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Mad- Ras its a translation of Telugu word, Mud meaning hair and ras meaning write.

it is said that when british were surveying the land of madras they wanted to give it a name and they confronted a Telugu man and asked him angrily, since they were tired of exhaustion. Then the Telugu man did sponteneously uttered the word Mad-ras - Trans :"write it as my pubic hair" !!!. the british were very happy and gave the city the same name ;))

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