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Customer Rating:

Summary: Not useful in the USA
Comment: I was really looking forward to this book because we wanted to give our baby a unique name, with
some religeous significance. However, we ended up not using it much because:

1) If you live
outside India, most of the names are unpronouncable by foreigners
2) Boy and girl names are not
separated out, which can get pretty painful if you know the baby's gender and still have to go thru
20,000 names

On a positive note, I can see great benefit if you wish to use it for the following
reasons:

1) Find the meaning of someone's name
2) Live in India and want a unique, meaningful
name for your child
3) Do not know the baby's gender and therefore don't care that the boy and
girl names are mixed together

Customer Rating:

Summary: Do not waste Your Time & Money on this BooK
Comment: It is definitely not the book you want to waste time/Money On.
Very disappointed; Don't believe
the good reviews , all have given wrong impression.
Reasons are:
1.Very small Font [ Kills
your eyes ]
2.Girls/Boys names mixed totally, not in alphabetically order [It should be rated 5
stars for disorganized book ]
3.You have to learn new method to read the names with proper accent
[ Waste of too much time, just to figure out how to pronounce ]
4.On top of it everything is in
English, She should have written the names English & Devnagri.
5.Most of the names are all over
the Internet, book does not have anything special or different or new at all, you definitely do not
need this book.
6.Unhappily gave 1 Star rating to this Book since there is no other option.

Customer Rating:

Summary: Not worth it
Comment: If you would like to come up with a name for your newborn, then this definitely is NOT the book to
use. It will certainly help though, if you would like to look up the roots/meaning of a name that
you have already decided.
I do appreciate the effort that Mrs.Maneka Gandhi has put into this
book. While the collection of names is exhaustive it does not help to come up with one, especially
when the names that you encounter are the likes of Bindusara, Duryodhana etc.
It's claim to fame
is that, it is a book of Hindu Names. Who cares whether they are relevant or not ???

Customer Rating:

Summary: Very extensive collection of Sanskrit names
Comment: The book contains 500+ pages of names in small fonts, alphabetically arranged. This is not for a
person looking for a English to Sanskrit names dictionary. But if you are looking for good Sanskrit
names for your "yet to be born" or as in my case "my newborn", this is an ideal source.

Customer Rating:

Summary: Poorly organized
Comment: As another reviewer commented, it is indeed an encyclopedia. However, one of the best things about
an encyclopedia is the organization. This book is not even organized by male vs. female name. Nor
completely alphabetic. Nor does it contain a good number of the more common Hindu names

If
you're looking for an easy guide to use to name your baby, this is NOT the book to buy!

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