Trivedi Jokes

There's lots to a name if it is Indian. Some even grade the amount of religious learning a person has acquired. Knowing only one Veda does not entitle you to an honorific, but if you know two, you can be a Dwivedi, if three, a Trivedi, and if you know all four, a Chaturvedi.
It is said that a Hindi writer named Trivedi went to complain to the editor of a paper who had published his story but given the name of the author as Dwivedi.
1 Sampadakji, I have to thank you for publishing my story,' he said,' but why did you have to reduce my rank from a Trivedi to Dwivedi? 1
The Sampadakji apologised and promised to make amends.' The next two stories I publish by you, I will name you Chaturvedi and make up your loss.'