Agastya

In the epics

Agastya appears in the Rāmāyaṇa as a sage: Supreme among sages.

Source: Drimigo Scripture KG (CC BY 4.0). Many characters share a name across the epics — this is one notable figure who bore it, not a claim about the name's only meaning.

Traditional associations

In Hindu tradition, names are sometimes chosen by the baby's rashi (moon sign) or nakshatra (birth star). This is cultural tradition, not a rule. Traditional rashi (by first letter, as commonly listed in this corpus) — not a personalized astrological reading, and not the same as the traditional first-syllable (akshara) method some families use.

• Rashi: Mesh
• Nakshatra: Ashwini
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Names with a similar meaning

Names that share a word with “Name of a sage, mountain thrower”. Meanings are the common reading rather than a ruling — the same name is often glossed differently by different sources.

• Jahnavi — River Ganga, daughter of sage Jahnu
• Rishi — Meanings families give: Sage, wise one; Sage, a holy seer who perceives divine truth; Sage, seer, enlightened one; Ancient sage, wise one
• Koushik — From the Kushika lineage; sage Vishwamitra
• Gita — a song, sacred song or poem, religious doctrines declared in metrical form by an inspired sage
• Kashyap — Meanings families give: A sage, seer; Ancient sage, tortoise, the progenitor of creation
• Arundhati — Meanings families give: Devoted wife star, loyalty personified; The morning star Alcor; wife of sage Vasishtha; Not restrained, star Alcor, devoted wife

More boys' names of Sanskrit origin

• Reyansh — Meanings families give: Ray of light; Ray of light, part of God Vishnu
• Aryan — Noble, of high birth
• Krish — Meanings families give: Lord Krishna; Short form of Krishna, dark, attractive
• Aarush — Meanings families give: First ray of sun; First ray of the winter sun, calm radiance
• Arnav — come from the sea
• Viaan — Meanings families give: Full of life, energy; Full of energy, lively, animated

Other names under Mesh rashi

• Aarav — Meanings families give: Peaceful, calm; Peaceful, calm, wise; Peaceful sound, wisdom; Calm, peaceful
• Aradhya — Worthy of worship
• Arjun — Meanings families give: Bright, shining, white; Bright, shining, the Pandava hero; Bright, shining, white, the Pandava hero; Bright, silver, the third Pandava; Bright, shining like silver and pure; Bright, shining, silver
• Aadya — First, Goddess Durga
• Aarohi — Meanings families give: Musical ascending notes; Ascending musical note, progressing; Musical note; ascending; Musical note, ascending
• Aadhya — Meanings families give: First power, beginning; First power, beginning of all creation

Traditional association, recorded because families use it when choosing — see all Mesh names.

Where this comes from

Agastya has no entry in the classical Sanskrit dictionary we check against, which is common for modern and non-Sanskrit names. Its meaning comes from our compiled name corpus, the least-sourced dataset on this site — we say so plainly on Sources & methodology rather than implying an authority we cannot name.