Help with name for our daughter

[Usha S]

Hi all,
We are excited to be bringing home our adopted daughter from India soon. We are looking for unusual but meaningful names for her. We would love to name her something that means gift, boon, blessing, miracle, or anything along those lines.

Thank you for any input!

Usha.

[Arvind_Kolhatkar]

You could call her ईप्सिता...

Arvind Kolhatkar

[Velury Krishna]

Namaste, 

APARNA

APAHATAM RUNA YASYASA APARNA 

Pranaams,

V.Krishna

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[Surendra Mohan Mishra]

Namaste.
She is like Sita or Janaki and Shakuntala who were adopted daughters
and rose to eminence !
We wish you and your daughter all best ! Whatever name she will
receive she should be a true Indian daughter !
God bless her !
Regards,
SMMishra

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[Dipak Ashar]

Respected Krishnaji,

thanks for breaking the name " aparna " . can u pl give me the meaning.

[vasantha syamalam]

Aparna means -  Parvathi/ Not taking even leaves/ a creeper without leaf/a woman having paid off the debts.

[vasantha syamalam]

'Bharathi '

[Anunad Singh]

If you want to use कटपयादि ,  here are two links-

Choosing the auspicious name - Srigaruda.com

The Principles of Naming

varahamihira.blogspot.in/2004/06/principles-of-naming.html

[Hnbhat B.R.]

APAHATAM RUNA YASYASA APARNA


र्णा Name of Durgā or Pārvatī Kālidāsa thus accounts for the name :
-स्वयंविशीर्णद्रुमपर्ण- वृत्तिता परा हि काष्ठा तपसस्तया पुनः ।
तदप्यपाकीर्णमिति प्रियंवदां वदन्त्यपर्णेति च तां पुराविदः ॥ Ku.5.28;

Śiva P. चतुर्थे त्यक्तपर्णा च अपर्णाख्यामवाप सा

The meaning of this word aparNA has been discussed in this group long
ago, the meaning of the word in this topic:

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/samskrita/B_PE_bPCtlM/lxnlDj1vGN8J

Please read more in the above link.

[Manish Modi]

अद्वितीया Advitiiyaa (first/unique/unmatched/unparalleled)

स्तुति Stuti (hymn)

दर्शना Darshanaa (seeing/perception)
दर्श्या  Darshyaa (worthy of being seen)
धवला Dhavalaa (white/fair)
दक्षा   Dakshaa (deft)
दानी   Daanii (liberal/generous)
दिव्या Divyaa (divine/heavenly/celestial)
दीप्ता   Diiptaa (shining/bright/brilliant/splendid)

दीप्तकीर्ति  Diiptakiirti (possessing bright fame)

दीप्ततेजस्  Diiptatejas (possessing bright glory)
देवी    Devii (goddess)

ह्रीं          Hriim (24 Jinas)
हृदया      Hridayaa (heart)
हृदयिका  Hridayikaa (good hearted/warm hearted)
हृदयिनी   Hridayinii (good hearted/warm hearted)
हृद्या        Hridyaa (dear to the heart/beloved/cherished)
हृदयांशी  Hridayaanshii (part of the heart)
हर्षा        Harshaa (joy/excitement/delight/pleasure)
हर्षुल      Harshul (disposed to be happy) 
हर्षजा    Harshajaa (arising from joy)
हर्षान्विता   Harshaanvitaa (full of joy)
हर्षिता    Harshitaa (delighted/pleased/happy)
हार्दि      Haardi (in the heart/contentment/ease/comfort)
हृषि       Hrishi (joy/satisfaction/pleasure)
हृषिवत   Hrishivat (full of joy/happy/glad)
हृषिता    Hrishitaa (cheerful/glad/happy)
हृष्टा       Hrishtaa (rejoiced/pleased/merry/glad)
हृष्टचित्ता Hrishtachittaa (happy in her heart)

[Subrahmanian R]

To amplify one of the meanings given by Ms. Vasantha Syamalam's, from what I have read about 'Aparna' - When we pray to a God or Goddess, He or She is sort of indebted to us. Goddess Parvathi answers the prayer immediately or gives the fruits immediately. Hence She is never indebted.

R Subrahmanian

[Velury Krishna]

Namaste,

Aparna also means reliever of debts, aparna chandika chanda munda sura nishoodini,(sri lalithasahsranama) 754th Nama.  i just keep chanting lalithasahsranama, so immediately this name came to my mind.  Beyond this i do not know the meaning.  I am not a Sanskrit Scholar.  My father revered Sri V.Sadanand was a gold medallist in sanskrit from benares hindu university.  I am a Panditaha Putraha Shuntaha.

Pranaams,

V.Krishna

www.samatabooks.org

+91-94440 10706

On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 8:31 PM, vasantha syamalam <vasantha...@gmail.com> wrote:

[Usha S]

Thank you all for your suggestions and the links. We have considered Hridaya and Stuti - nice to know they have such lovely meanings!
We are still debating names and I am glad to have so many more to add to the mix.

[Rajam Srinivasan]

Vishvaanandita -- The Bliss (of the Universe)  OR Vishva Smitha (Smile of the Universe)  It is as if she is the Whole Universe of bliss to you OR  She is your whole universe of Smile!! 

 (I stilll cherish and am  mentally nourished by the fanciful nick-name my father had bestowed on me with a story to go along with it -- "VishNu-smitha" (it seems that once when VishNu was bored he conjured me up with the "makaranda" of his "Vyjayanthi maala", which brought a smile to his face -- so I was Vishnu-smitha, the bringer of smile to vishnu! :))))))) Actually I almost believed it right up to my highschool days!!!  In the whole of BrhmaaNDa I was the the most unique -- the only one created by VishNu and not Brahma -- the ordinary creator of everything else!!!!

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Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2015 18:19:49 +0530
Subject: Re: [Samskrita] Help with name for our daughter
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[J Dave]

Varenya is one suggestion, since you have chosen and adopted.