Guest guest Posted February 15, 2008 Report Share Posted February 15, 2008 WHAT IS IN A NAME? One of my friends called me to find out a sutiable name for his new born baby on the month of Ani in the star- svAthi. adiyEan suggeted the name of EmperumAn -Narasimhabn. He settled for 'achyuth'. I was happy. He explained that he wanted a name starting in a, au or somehting like that and so he had selected and 'achyuth' a common name in kerala. I was happy about the name but not the method of selection. There are dedicated webistes for selecting the names. All the bookstores definitely have a book dedicated on "how to select the name for your child?' These are all dedicated on the syllable, date of birth and astrology. In earlier years, the names used to be taken from that of grandfather. Politics also played a big role and people take names of political leaders for their children. I have seen the names of tholkAppian, TheAmbAvani -These are names from tamil literature. Nowadays, it is all fancy names. In North India, i see names like bobby, nitin, pappu very popular. More wierd is the fact, that a person reelng in abject penury holding the name 'kOTeswaran' - crorepathy - or a person with defective vision- kaNNAyiram- or a black one named -veLLayan, the white- or a girl with complete black complexion named as -Poornima. Is there a need to refer to such repository of names? Is there a need to follow a particular syllable based name? Are these useful for posterity? These questions are wonderfully addressed by Sri PeriAzvAr dasan vanamamalai padmanabhan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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