History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v2.c23.288

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The later works state many details which it is unnecessary to set out. The mother with her child on her lap sits to the right of the father. Some late writers prescribe that the father is to give a secret name to the boy and should spread husked grains of rice in a vessel of bronze, write thereon with a golden pen the words 'salutations to Śrī Gaṇapati' and then write four names of the boy, viz. kuladevatā nāma (such as Yogeśvarībhakta), then māsanāma (vide note 566 above), a vyāvahārikanāma, a nakṣatranāma.⁵⁷⁹