[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Polity, law and society](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity) › [History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India)](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930) › v2.c23.246 # History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v2.c23.246 History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v2.c23.246 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c23.246](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v2.c23.246) but (in all cases) with an even number of syllables in the case of males and with an uneven number of syllables in the case of women. And let him find out (for the boy) a name to be employed at respectful salutations (at Upanayana &c.); that name (the boy's) mother and father alone should know till his upanayana'⁵⁵⁵. The Śāṅ. gr. (S. B. E. vol. 29. p. 50) omits the rule about the name ending in a \*visarga\* and allows an option of six syllables and adds that the name should be formed by a \*kṛt\* affix (from a root) and not by a \*taddhita\*; that this name should be known only to his parents and that on the tenth day after birth the father should give the child a name for ordinary use which should be pleasing to brāhmaṇas. It should be noticed that Āśv. and Śāṅ. differ on one very important point. According to Āśv. the name for which elaborate rules are laid down is to be the ordinary name and he lays down no rule about the formation of the secret name; while Sāṅ. lays down for the secret name the same rules as Āśv. does for the public one and Śāṅ. says about the public name that it should be pleasing. - [Previous: v2.c23.245](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v2.c23.245) - [Next: v2.c23.247](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v2.c23.247) - [Up: v2.c23](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v2.c23) ## Linked texts (1) - [Śāṅkhāyanagṛhyasūtra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.sankhayana) — Śāṅkhāyana, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v2.c23.246](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v2.c23.246) · Pramāṇa