Sunāma: Beautiful Sanskrit Names

[Nityānanda Miśra]

namo vaḥ

I am pleased to announce the publication of my latest book, “Sunāma: Beautiful Sanskrit Names”. The book will be available for pre-order in November and will be out in December/January. The cover of the book and a 31-page preview PDF of the book is attached with this email.

Book details

Title: “Sunāma: Beautiful Sanskrit Names”
Genre: Non-fiction

Keywords: Hinduism, Sanskrit, Onomastics, Baby Names
Book summary in brief: A collection of more than 3,000 Sanskrit names (most of them rare or unused) from 77 Sanskrit texts including 38 sahasranāmas, with meanings, gender, references, and opposite gender versions
Language: English, with IAST and Devanagari for Sanskrit names and words
Author: Nityānanda Miśra
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing India Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi, India
Book design and typesetting in XeLaTeX: Nityānanda Miśra
Fonts used: Charis SIL and Chanakya Sanskrit
ISBN-13: 978-9-3903-5810-6
Book type: Paperback
Book size: B-format (198 × 129 mm)
Number of pages: 170
Price: ₹ 499

About the book

Parents wish to give a unique and meaningful name to their child. In India, a Sanskrit name is mostly preferred. Often parents turn to the Internet, which is replete with misinformation on Sanskrit names. Popular name websites mispresent meaning of many Sanskrit words and sometimes even list names from other languages, presenting them as Sanskrit names. Some bestselling books on Sanskrit names also carry such mistakes. Parents are misled by such sources and end up giving a kunāma (‘a bad name’) to their child.

Each Sanskrit sunāma—or ‘a good name’—has a mathematical derivation (vyutpatti) and/or a mystical explanation (nirukti). This work by Nityānanda Miśra is a wonderful collection of more than 3,000 sunāmas, most of which are rare or unused today. He studied more than 70,000 names in seventy-seven authentic Sanskrit texts, including seven Vedic saṃhitās, ten Purāṇas, the Rāmāyaṇa, the Mahābhārata, seven koṣas, three grammar works and thirty-eight sahasranāmas for this compilation. Each name entry includes the Devanagari and IAST spellings, gender, meaning, and the person or deity to whom the name belongs. Opposite gender versions of the names are also provided, wherever applicable.

A work of immense dedication and accurate research, this is a must-have for parents seeking rare or unique Sanskrit names for their child. 

The background text on the cover

The front cover background has the first 17 half-verses (13.149.14 to first half of 13.149.22) of the Viṣṇu-sahasranāma in Mahābhārata’s Anuśāsana-parvan, taken from multiple pages of a manuscript here. The back cover background has 14 half verses (second half of 13.149.23 to first half of 13.149.30) 

The book on the Internet

The sample PDF can is available under https://www.academia.edu/44316377/

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[Amba Kulkarni]

Congratulations Nityananda ji for an excellent book.

Parents keep asking us about Good Names for their newborns, and I used to have a lot of difficulty in suggesting the names since the resources on Internet are not that good and full of errors as you have rightly mentioned in your preface. Referring to the dictionary used to be very time-consuming. 

Now I'll always recommend your book to such parents.

Best,

Amba Kulkarni

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[Anil Kumar Gourishetty]

Heartiest congratulations Nityananda ji!

Anil Kumar Gourishetty

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[Nityānanda Miśra]

namo vaḥ

I am pleased to announce that my book “Sunāma: Beautiful Sanskrit Names” is out. Some photos of the book are attached with this email. 

The book is available for pre-order on Amazon India and Flipkart. 

Amazon India link: https://www.amazon.in/dp/9390358108

Flipkart link: https://www.flipkart.com/sunama/p/itm905bf954fba18

In a few weeks, it will be available in bookstores in India and also on Amazon.com internationally. The e-book and Kindle versions are expected to be out in a couple of months.

For now, if copies are required outside India, please email me off the list. For bulk copies also, please email me off the list. 

Thanks, Nityananda

[Gomathy Swaminathan]

Dear Misra Mahodaya,

I have watched some of your lectures on Sanskrit names with great interest. Your effort is much appreciated. It is a much needed book when people rake the internet for nice sounding Sanskrit names. Congratulations on this great effort.

I was going through the few pages that were visible on the link. I have already identified some typographical errors. The computer transliterations are not faultfree and some errors have crept in and escaped proof reading, it appears. 

In the few pages I was able to scan, here are the typos I wanted to bring your attention to. Some I have listed alongside the right words but others I am not able to reproduce with the transliteration. 

वसिष्ठो विसष्ठो
अखिन्न  अखिन्ना
अग्निमित्र
हविष्णु  हिवष्णु
हविष्मान्  हिवष्मान्
हविष्मती   हिवष्मती
होत्रिका  होत्रीय  होत्रीया 

Maybe you are already aware of these. If so. please excuse and ignore my email

Thank you,

Gomathy

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[Nityānanda Miśra]

Namaste Gomathy Ji

These are not due to errors in the sample PDF or the book but due to erroneous display of some Devanagari glyphs on academia.edu website.  

Just download and read the sample PDF (attached in my post) in any PDF viewer and you will not see any of the errors that you highlighted below. I have attached two images showing how the same words are rendered correctly by a Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Acrobat plugin.

The book does not have these errors. 

Thanks, Nityananda

[Julia Marcotte]

dhanyavAdaH for this resource. Is there going to be an ebook available on Amazon?

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[Gomathy Swaminathan]

Dear Misraji,

Thank you so much for the clarification. I am sure something like this would not have slipped your attention. I was somewhat presumptuous in my reaction. I apologize.

Gomathy

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[Gomathy Swaminathan]

Namonama:

Question for Misraji,

What is the meaning of Bhashyam in people’s name. This is prevalent among Tamil Vaishnavas. Rangabhashyam is a common name, also Bhashyam Iyengar. 

Thank you

Gomathy