Banashankari
Banashankari means Forest goddess Parvati, Shakti.
Meaning as commonly given; not from a dictionary.
| Gender | girl |
| Origin | Kannada |
| Language | Kannada |
| Starts with | B |
Names with a similar meaning
Names that share a word with “Forest goddess Parvati, Shakti”. Meanings are the common reading rather than a ruling — the same name is often glossed differently by different sources.
- Parvati — Meanings families give: Daughter of the mountain, Shiva consort; Daughter of mountain, goddess Shakti
- Kali — Meanings families give: The dark goddess, time, destroyer of evil; Dark goddess; the fierce form of Shakti
- Anvi — Meanings families give: One who leads; Goddess of forest and nature
- Vanya — n. growing or produced or existing in a forest
- Saravanan — Born in the reed forest, Murugan
- Banamali — One who wears a garland of forest flowers, Krishna
More girls' names of Kannada origin
- Mythri — Meanings families give: Friendship, benevolence; Friendship, friendly, benevolent
- Yashaswini — Famous, glorious, successful woman
- Mamatha — Love, affection, maternal feeling
- Malavika — N. of a woman (See next)
- Roopashree — Endowed with beauty, graceful one
- Prajwala — Blazing, glowing brightly
Where this comes from
Banashankari 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.