Naamakarna/ Naamkaran (Week 1- Week 2) The next important Samskara is, Naamakarna/ Naamkaran (naming of the child). There are two purposes of naming the child - the first is that the name is used to address the child , and the second is that the name should raise good feelings inside the person, which reminds him of his goal . That is why in the olden days babies were named after gods or after one of their ancestors. In addition, it is believed that when naming a baby girl the chosen name should be sweet and nice to say as girls in the Hindu household are depicted as Goddess Laxmi. There's a saying in Hindi Ghar Ki Laxmi Betiyaan which literally translates that daughters' are the image of Goddess Laxmi in the house. Mostly when a baby is to be named parents of the newborn consult an astrologist to calculate the first letter of the infant's name in harmony to the infant's birth time, date of birth, day of birth, Raas...