India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c8.s15.t1.25

c8.s15.t1.25

Female names are regulated in *sūtra*, IV.1.113, on which the *Kāśikā* cites *Śikshitā* and *Chintitā*. This rule also refers to women named after rivers, and also to their *apatya* or descendants, *e.g.* Yāmuna, son of Yamunā. The *Vārāha Gṛihyasūtra* states that a girl should not be named after a river, and this form of naming is not approved by Manu (III.9) also.