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>According to this verse in the manusmriti, you shouldn't marry your son to a daughter named after something in nature:
The rishis themselves proclaimed that the guiding light of kali yuga should be logic.
>I've read (here in this book) that the probable cause for this rule was that people with nature-names were non-Aryan/non-Hindu and so you wouldn't want your sons to marry daughters from those families.
Which is bullshit analysis as thr caste, gotra, surname is a far better indicator of those things.
>Also, the Manusmrti rule does not specifically state not to name your daughter after things in nature - it just states that girls with nature-names are not marriageable.
The Manusmṛti has been altered by too many people and furthermore no logic is given for this particular verse, so by the requirements of the rishis themselves, it is best to disregard it.
>Does this imply, as it sounds like it does, that you should not name your daughter after rivers, even if you are Hindu and the name you choose is the name of a sacred Hindu river?
Not even then as the sacred rivers themselves are also goddesses and therefore beyond nature as well.