[Q/A] No Child's Play: How Not To Name Your Child | Nityananda Misra

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[Q/A] No Child's Play: How Not To Name Your Child | Nityananda Misra | Sanskrit Hindu Names

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Main Talk: • No Child's Play: How N...
A lot of parents turn to the Internet these days to pick up Sanskrit names for their children. As it turns out, a lot of name websites deceive parents by inventing non-existent Sanskrit names or giving dubious meanings. This talk with real-life examples is an eye-opener for parents wishing to give a Sanskrit name to their children.
About the speaker: -
Nityananda Misra is an IIM Bangalore graduate and a finance professional. He is a scholar of Sanskrit and Hindi and a well-known author. He has edited/authored eleven books, including ‘The OM Mala’ and ‘Kumbha: The Traditionally Modern Mela’. He writes on Hindu religion, philosophy, and culture.
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@ragub6 4 жыл бұрын

My Choice: 1. Look up Vishnu/Lakshmi Sahasranama 2. Name of Avtaars/deities 3. Names of Acharyas 4. Names of Noble souls impacted you

@rsn4189 2 жыл бұрын

If you name someone after Deities or Avataars don't forget to use words like 'Das' after the name. Because that person cannot be Lord but his servant.🙏🏻

@SJ-zo3lz 2 жыл бұрын

@@rsn4189 That's a very Abrahamic perspective. We are Vedantists and should be knowingt that we are one with deitees and Bhakti is a way to achieve this union. We have had for example infinite Vishnu bhakts named Narayana and Shiva bhakts named Shambhu.

@user-kt3jn7wx5f 2 жыл бұрын

@@SJ-zo3lz ✌️🙏

@nilutpalmahanta9832 Жыл бұрын

@@SJ-zo3lz In India ,which language Hindus give names to their children? Regional or Sanskrit language?

@praneethmashetty591 4 ай бұрын

@@nilutpalmahanta9832 For the majority of Indian Hindus, people will prefer Sanskrit names. Tamil names and Prakrit names are rare but do exist in their respective regions.

@purvasanglikar9814 4 жыл бұрын

राजीव मल्होत्रा और नित्यानंद मिश्रा का नाम लेने से देवदत्त पटनायक वैसे ही गायब होंगे जैसे हनुमान चालीसा पढते ही भूत पिशाच ।

@parasnathyadav3869 2 жыл бұрын

JAI SHREE RAM 🙏🙏

@sureshpaul2579 3 жыл бұрын

A foreigner ( my master's classmate) named her child as smashaan. Because she it was like hulk smash type masculine name. After I explained to her that it means cremation ground, she changed it.😂😂

@user-kt3jn7wx5f 2 жыл бұрын

😂😂✌️

@veena3648 4 жыл бұрын

In Marathi culture, every child has 2 names... 1) The real name which is based on the Moon's birth Nakshatra. This name is not known to all. It's kept a secret and is uttered only during Yagnas along with the gotra. This name is usually Puranic or Vedic. 2) the common name that's registered on the birth certificate that everyone uses.

@fortune4302 4 жыл бұрын

VEENA JI,,WHY THE NAKSHATRA NAME IS KEPT SECRET,,CAN U PLEASE EXPLAIN THAT...

@siddharth5922 4 жыл бұрын

@@fortune4302 Birth names are mostly old fashioned like gopal, narayan... Nowadays people want new name which nobody has heard... Therefore they keep birth name secret and get new fashionable names

@udaysingh6676 4 жыл бұрын

@@siddharth5922 not only in Maharashtra , earlier almost all over India and still in Nepal brahmanik families. these two names were followed. One of reason was to save the child or person from bad eye and some tantrik practices by evil minded people to harm the person.

@veena3648 4 жыл бұрын

FORTUNATE DIVINITY That name of used along with gotra name can give someone power to cast some tantric spells on you. That's the common belief

@ranjanabisht2068 4 жыл бұрын

Even in Uttarakhand we have two names. One is nakshatra or rashi name and the other is the official name known to all...

@tk_jain 4 жыл бұрын

When someone said the name Kiran, A thought strikes ..may be after 20 years someone will get named Laser

@cosmicallyspeaking871 4 жыл бұрын

@8:22 " I don't have a Samskrit background. I am a person from science " What a contradiction!

@udaysingh6676 4 жыл бұрын

Yes , you and many today are from so called science ,but only from a limited science ie only the physical science,which believes in visible and measured dimensions and not beyond of other dimensions. True Sanatan Dharam is based on all physical and beyond physical dimensions. Why can't the physical science accepts the facts that there could be science beyond physical dimensions ie Pra Prakriti which is beyond five physical elements ie Prithvi , jal ,Agni , vayu and akaash and even beyond man , Budhi and anhkar . These can be known only by beyond these so called inv investigations and research . But present science rules out anything beyond their realm ,which is not true scientific approach. May like to visit cosmicgrace.org .

@JimiKiJai 3 жыл бұрын

And the speaker himself is a statistician!

@sanataniforlife9447 3 жыл бұрын

Exactly, one of the reasons why our society values have eroded from the knowledge we used to have before colonisation

@raghavbhardwaj3192 3 жыл бұрын

In all fairness, I believe that he was talking about his educational background. He never disregarded Samskrit

@cosmicallyspeaking871 3 жыл бұрын

@@raghavbhardwaj3192 I was not questioning his innocence or integrity, rather highlighting his ignorance in separating/isolating the two as separate entities. In other words, Samskrit(am) is/has always been the language of the science. You pick any faculty of science, starting from Art & ending with quantum mechanics - every one of those pure science, has been hypothesized, researched, debated, documented in Vedas/Upanishads/Shastras/Shurtis/Smritis written mostly in Samskrit(am) Bhasha. A small example : Surya Siddhanta = the mind-boggling, voluminous repository that combines Astronomy, Astrology, Calculus, Cosmology, Geology, Optics, Physics, Mathematics....(the list is long) today's entire cutting edge space technology that the NASA boasts of, have been appropriated/stolen by the so-called, scientist after european scientist = is written in Samskrit(am) and only 1% of the entire repository has been understood by the scientific community today.

@vasaniashvin1305 4 жыл бұрын

हिन्दी में भी अनुवाद की जी ऐ ताकि ज्यादा लेगो तक पहुच सके

@nishantbhandarkar17 3 жыл бұрын

Lol..😂😂😂

@raguks 4 жыл бұрын

While monier williams is okay for name checking this is not an authentic dictionary. Please refer to traditional dictionaries Shabda Kapladruma or Amarakosha so on. They are online too.

@krisryali 4 жыл бұрын

referring to last answer: If that was the case Ajamel could not have attained moksha just by pronouncing his son's name once.

@ashokmahajan377 2 жыл бұрын

It may be mentioned here or not ,one of the Idea to use names of God /Goddess is that by calling the child by that name parents are automatically chanting the name of God / Goddess.

@universeofopulence 2 жыл бұрын

...ami is used in Gujarat, rajasthan, Punjab and other parts of n.india.

@PreethiS6 4 жыл бұрын

why promote the sanskrit dictionaries on german university website or monier-williams? apte is wonderful and easy and comes in english-sanskrit as well. vachaspatyam and amarakosha are more detailed.

@supriyasharma8538 4 жыл бұрын

He's just listing a variety of verified and true dictionaries

@Vijay-pm5vv 2 жыл бұрын

I was flabhaghasted where a hindu -sikh couple, the lady gave the name of her brother who died in an accident to their first male baby and they are adamant not to select from thousand other meaningful names ? Name and sound go together so they keep inviting vibrations of the dead person back into their life and home every time they call him by that dead person's name .

@anoushkas8726 2 ай бұрын

No this is BS!😂

@Sumit-Sh 4 жыл бұрын

How about Sumit and Sumeet, both are very common names 🙂

@reikihealeraccupressuretherapy 2 жыл бұрын

Check your name in Vishnu sahasranama

@abhiyou0tube Жыл бұрын

Wonderful and enlightening q&a

@kamus2478 Жыл бұрын

6:25 onwards - The point raised by the gentleman is applicable to all knowledge, laws and theorems developed over the course of human history on which current systems are built. Panini may be wrong and so may be Aryabhatta, Galen, Newton, Fermi, Heisenberg and Einstein. Now, if one comes up with names that are wrong as per the language systems that the person isn't proficient in , the premise that he /she can just declare that the people involved in developing the systems could have committed mistakes is as logical as a situation where someone who doesn't know relativity defends a mistake related to the application of relativity, just declares Einstein being guilty of errors while coming up with relativity . As another person who comes from science and practises the same , this approach doesn't seem scientific to me by any stretch of the imagination. Unless one can summarily prove one's premise that something is wrong, the existing systems will be considered corrrect. The burden of the proof lies on the challenger unless he expects Panini/ Einstein to come forward and prove their innocence in a court of inquisition. Without proof, such comments are just entitled opinions that don't matter in the scientific world. n.b.- I have almost zero knowledge of Sanskrit.

@kdas996 4 жыл бұрын

Great sir.....

@devidevi-ps7rr Жыл бұрын

Which name is good among samaira and aishka ?? Please help me name my child ❤

@parasnathyadav3869 2 жыл бұрын

JAI shree RAM NITYANAND Mishra ji

@poojavora647 4 жыл бұрын

Names like Sita , Bramhi , Rati , Sati etc are against the guide?

@reikihealeraccupressuretherapy 2 жыл бұрын

No they are divine devis name . You can check your ancestral grandmothers name will have with suffix as sita Lakshmi or Brahmiammba or RathinDevi or Kumari

@satyavishnoi6215 2 ай бұрын

श्रीमान् आपके प्रयास को नमन है बहुत आवश्यक था ऐसा "भगीरथ" प्रयास लेकिन ये कैसा प्रयास है कि जिस संस्कृत और ""हिन्दी भाषा" के जागरण के लिए आप प्रयारत् हैं वही "हिन्दी भाषा" आपकी पुस्तकों में तो है लेकिन आपकी "वाणी" से गायब है,शायद आपको अपने "हिन्दी भाषी पाठकों" पर विश्वास नहीं है ??😇😇😇

@amiteshtomar9171 2 ай бұрын

सरजी, ज्ञान के संस्कृत अक्षर 'ग्या' का उच्चारण कैसे करें?

@universe12e 2 жыл бұрын

I name my son's name -shivoham? It is a sentence.is it right? Calling this name will always remember me of nirvanashtakam

@saketmusic 2 жыл бұрын

Is "Aadya" a good name for a girl?

@reikihealeraccupressuretherapy 2 жыл бұрын

Yes it is one of the devi names instead you can Adi Shakti or Prashakti or AdhyaShakti

@reikihealeraccupressuretherapy 2 жыл бұрын

You will get endless names in lalita sahasarnama

@anamaykane9355 Жыл бұрын

आद्या means first one or pioneer.

@thejaswinianalyst1607 3 жыл бұрын

Is the name Alyka is meaningful to name my baby girl

@SHIVAKUMARSOMA06 9 ай бұрын

Sir which is best Shriyan or Shashivarnam for boy name ??

@Lookintoyourmirrorfirst 4 ай бұрын

Shashi means moon. Shashivarnam means color of moon. Let’s say “white” . Why do you want to go with that name ? Think about “Shashidhara” , which means the one who wear moon, who is “Shiva”

@Lookintoyourmirrorfirst 4 ай бұрын

Shashivarna could be a name. Shashivarnam is a description

@praveenmadduri5383 3 жыл бұрын

Can I name my son name Visishta Ram

@reikihealeraccupressuretherapy 2 жыл бұрын

@parveen you can name as Bhargava Ram or Ishavaku Ram

@sudarshansudarshan5926 2 жыл бұрын

Hi Sir, can you pls suggest some name from V, Va, Vo for my daughter

@devidevi-ps7rr Жыл бұрын

Veeksha

@kjayam 2 ай бұрын

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@devidevi-ps7rr Жыл бұрын

Which one among these names is good? Samaira, Aishka or Aishani ?Which one sounds good and which one is unique ? Please help

@Lookintoyourmirrorfirst 4 ай бұрын

Ishani means parvathi

@Lookintoyourmirrorfirst 4 ай бұрын

I don’t think there is aishika or aishani. Better not to go with them. Samaira also sounds non-Sanskrit…

@SagnikChatterjee2203 11 ай бұрын

Is Saransh a good name for baby boy?

@Lookintoyourmirrorfirst 4 ай бұрын

Saaransh means “summary” right ?

@sumimasen_wtf 3 ай бұрын

Bro, please use whatever you feel like. This man only specializes in Sanskrit names. Naturally, that doesn't includes Bengali names which are derived from Prakrit. I'll suggest looking for names through Bengali name books. See if you can pick some at College Street, and consult a numerologist before registering it.

@sikanartstudio 3 жыл бұрын

What the meaning of name ‘SIKAN’ .?

@universe12e 2 жыл бұрын

Best name of male start with hindi letter "tha"?

@SUPERHUMAN2011 4 жыл бұрын

Dont use English name big mistake

@udhamudhamjain Жыл бұрын

👍

@prasadvadavalkar474 3 жыл бұрын

Aveer name is Hindi or Marathi?

@Lookintoyourmirrorfirst 4 ай бұрын

Aveer is not good name. Aveer is opposite of veer. Misra ji himself explained..

@CK30585 4 жыл бұрын

How come this program is in English though the topic is on sanskrit names? In one way the speaker is against non sanskrit names but himself speaking in english..why can't we have such discussions in hindi rather than english .. if i am not wrong 70 percent of indian population can understand hindi.

@abay7456 4 жыл бұрын

Maybe this was the session that was conducted in English and then recorded. Maybe he has hosted a session in Hindi, which wasn't recorded. Point is to consume the information.

@CK30585 4 жыл бұрын

@@abay7456 not a satisfatory answer... Why the program was recorded for English not for hindi. Why there is such partiality for Hindi prigrams not recorded? And do they have time to conduct programs for both language. I don't think so.

@adv.shravanvijayakumar8352 4 жыл бұрын

We need English to reach non Hindi speaking population and also to propogate our great thought to people of foreign countries who are interested in Ancient Indian thoughts. But it good if the admins start an Hindi version of this channels also for benefit of Hindi speakers.

@FMCariappa 4 жыл бұрын

You are wrong. Many people dont speak Hindi and neither to they care about it. Sanskrit would be ideal, but since it is not feasible at the moment, English is perfect. I see only North Indians asking this stupid question about Hindi in most channels.

@sanjaygowda932 4 жыл бұрын

I'm from Bangalore... Don't know Hindi!