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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 9, Ch. 20]
taṁ tyaktu-kāmāṁ mamatāṁ bhārtus tyāga-viśaṅkitām nāma-nirvācanaṁ tasya ślokam enaṁ surā jaguḥ
tam—that newly born baby; tyaktu-kāmāṁ—who was trying to avoid; mamatāṁ—unto Mamatā; bhartuḥ tyāga-viśaṅkitāṁ—very much afraid of being forsaken by her husband because of giving birth to an illegitimate son; nāma-nirvācanaṁ—a name-giving ceremony, or nāma-karaṇa; tasya—to the child; ślokam—verse; enaṁ—this; surāḥ—the demigods; jaguḥ—enunciated.
TRANSLATION
Mamatā  very much feared being forsaken by her husband for giving birth to an illegitimate son, and therefore she considered giving up the child. But then the demigods solved the problem by enunciating a name for the child.
PURPORT
According to Vedic scripture, whenever a child is born there are some ceremonies known as  jāta-karma  and  nāma-karaṇa , in which learned  brāhmaṇas , immediately after the birth of the child, make a horoscope according to astrological calculations. But the child to which Mamatā gave birth was begotten by Bṛhaspati irreligiously, for although Mamatā was the wife of Utathya, Bṛhaspati made her pregnant by force. Therefore Bṛhaspati became  bhartā . According to Vedic culture, a wife is considered the property of her husband, and a son born by illicit sex is called  dvāja . The common word still current in Hindu society for such a son is  doglā , which refers to a son not begotten by the husband of his mother. In such a situation, it is difficult to give the child a name according to proper regulative principles. Mamatā, therefore, was perplexed, but the demigods gave the child the appropriate name Bharadvāja, which indicated that the child born illegitimately should be maintained by both Mamatā and Bṛhaspati.