Thanks for the information I had heard the other variations but didn t know about ayya k r is that a legitimate variant or a mistake in our article That aside I agree that all this detail is unnecessary and distracting in the lede sentence and we should include it either in a box on the lines of or add a section on etymology and pronunciation of Iyengar Would you like to take the lead in writing up the section box With my kindergarten level of knowledge of Tamil script I am sure to introduce more error than is typical even for wikipedia