Damayanti

In the epics

Damayanti appears in the Mahābhārata as a queen: Bhima's daughter.

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: Vrishabh
• Nakshatra: Rohini
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Names with a similar meaning

Names that share a word with “Meanings families give: Taming others, wife of Nala, legendary beauty; Subduing, taming, beautiful princess”. Meanings are the common reading rather than a ruling — the same name is often glossed differently by different sources.

• Damayanthi — Subduing, taming, beautiful princess
• Nala — Name of a celebrated king (of the Nala-Damayanti story)
• Ekalavya — Meanings families give: Devoted student, legendary archer of Mahabharata; Devoted student, the lone archer
• Aneri — Unlike others, unique
• Pradip — Meanings families give: Lamp, one who illuminates others on the right path; Lamp, light; one who illuminates; Lamp, light, illumination
• Taran — One who helps others cross, savior

More girls' names of Sanskrit / Sanskrit-Malayalam origin

• Arya — behaving like an Āryan, worthy of one, honourable, respectable
• Shreeja — Meanings families give: Goddess Lakshmi, auspicious birth; Born of prosperity, Goddess Lakshmi
• Shruthi — Meanings families give: Musical pitch, what is heard; Music, sound, heard, scripture
• Gayathri — Meanings families give: Sacred Vedic hymn; A sacred Vedic hymn, mother of Vedas
• Sreelakshmi — Meanings families give: Goddess Lakshmi; Auspicious Lakshmi, fortune and grace
• Sheetal — Meanings families give: Cool, calm, soothing like water; Cool, calm, soothing

Other names under Vrishabh rashi

• Vihaan — Meanings families give: Dawn, morning; Dawn, morning, beginning; Dawn, beginning of new era; Dawn, morning, beginning of light
• Vamika — Meanings families give: Goddess Durga, moving to the left; Goddess Parvati, another name for Durga
• Vivaan — Meanings families give: Full of life; Full of life, rays of the morning sun; Full of life, Sun; Full of life, sunrise
• Viaan — Meanings families give: Full of life, energy; Full of energy, lively, animated
• Tara — n. a star
• Vedant — Meanings families give: Ultimate knowledge; End of Vedas, the Upanishads and highest knowledge; Ultimate wisdom, end of the Vedas; Ultimate knowledge; Vedanta philosophy; Ultimate knowledge, Vedas; Ultimate knowledge, Vedanta philosophy

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

Where this comes from

Damayanti 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.