I don't know about that stuff with the little girl--maybe she's connected to that weird doomsday moogle?--but I'm Indian, so I can weigh in a little bit on the linkshell name.
Kali is traditionally the goddess of destruction in Indian mythology, but can also be translated to 'black' in Hindi. As far as Shashidhwaja, it's the name of a raja (rajas were Indian high nobility, sorta like a king or prince) who challenged Kalki, an incarnation of the preserver god Vishnu who was dedicated to wiping evil from the face of the Earth. Kalki willingly surrendered to marry Shashidhwaja's daughter, making Shashidhwaja one of the only figures in Indian mythology to "defeat" an incarnation of Vishnu. This was probably because Shashidhwaja wasn't actually that bad.
Admittedly, the connotations of this are... worrying. As 'Black' in most ancient mythos refers to something evil, and if it doesn't translate to black then it translates to the literal actual goddess of evil and destruction that Kalki fought, the meaning of this name is either two things: an evil challenger to a god who got killed during the fight (because he would actually be evil in this case); or the inverse, an evil challenger who fought a god and won. Another possibility is that this name implies Shashidhwaja being an incarnation of the goddess Kali herself, which is another big problem. I'm not an expert, so any corrections/feedback would be appreciated!
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Kali is traditionally the goddess of destruction in Indian mythology, but can also be translated to 'black' in Hindi. As far as Shashidhwaja, it's the name of a raja (rajas were Indian high nobility, sorta like a king or prince) who challenged Kalki, an incarnation of the preserver god Vishnu who was dedicated to wiping evil from the face of the Earth. Kalki willingly surrendered to marry Shashidhwaja's daughter, making Shashidhwaja one of the only figures in Indian mythology to "defeat" an incarnation of Vishnu. This was probably because Shashidhwaja wasn't actually that bad.
Admittedly, the connotations of this are... worrying. As 'Black' in most ancient mythos refers to something evil, and if it doesn't translate to black then it translates to the literal actual goddess of evil and destruction that Kalki fought, the meaning of this name is either two things: an evil challenger to a god who got killed during the fight (because he would actually be evil in this case); or the inverse, an evil challenger who fought a god and won. Another possibility is that this name implies Shashidhwaja being an incarnation of the goddess Kali herself, which is another big problem. I'm not an expert, so any corrections/feedback would be appreciated!