‘Gaa’ implies ‘gaan’ (song) and ‘jon’ might have come from ‘mahajan’ (the great/noble one). If one goes by this logic, which appears valid in the local, originary context of the word, the meaning of Gajon becomes ‘song dedicated to Shiva (mahajan)’.
Judhajit Sarkar
Judhajit Sarkar is a research scholar at the Department of Comparative Literature, Jadavpur University.
