Anasuya
Anasuya means Free from envy or jealousy.
Meaning as commonly given; not from a dictionary.
| Gender | girl |
| Origin | Sanskrit |
| Language | Hindi |
| Starts with | A |
In the epics
Anasuya appears in the Rāmāyaṇa as a ascetic lady, Atri's wife: Created roots and fruits during ten years of drought; made Ganga flow; performed austerities for ten thousand years.
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.
Names with a similar meaning
Names that share a word with “Free from envy or jealousy”. Meanings are the common reading rather than a ruling — the same name is often glossed differently by different sources.
- Aditi — Meanings families give: Unbounded, infinite, mother of gods; Boundless, free, mother of gods; Mother of gods, boundless, free; Free, boundless, mother of gods
- Raahi — Meanings families give: Traveller, one on a journey; Traveller, wanderer, free spirit
- Vrij — Vrindavan, free, Krishna's home
- Mukta — loosened, let loose, set free, relaxed, slackened
- Ashokan — Meanings families give: Without sorrow; joyful and free from grief; Without grief, Emperor Ashoka
- Pakhi — Bird, free like a bird
More girls' names of Sanskrit origin
- Raha — Rest, happiness, freedom
- Saanvi — Meanings families give: Goddess Lakshmi; Goddess Lakshmi, one who follows; Goddess Lakshmi, knowledge
- Aradhya — Worthy of worship
- Diya — Meanings families give: Lamp, light; Lamp, divine light
- Vamika — Meanings families give: Goddess Durga, moving to the left; Goddess Parvati, another name for Durga
- Aadya — First, Goddess Durga
Where this comes from
Anasuya 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.