Indra

In the epics

Indra appears in the Rāmāyaṇa as a deity: The thousand-eyed one, Shakra, Purandara, Vasava.

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: King of the gods, lord of thunder and rain; King of gods, ruler of heaven”. Meanings are the common reading rather than a ruling — the same name is often glossed differently by different sources.

• Dhvani — sound, echo, noise, voice, tone, tune, thunder
• Samar — Meanings families give: Battle, war; War, battle, a warrior who excels in combat; War, battle, fruit of heaven
• Poulami — Wife of Indra; Shachi; queen of heaven
• Taavish — Gold, heaven, courageous
• Zion — Heaven, highest point
• Tian — Sky, heaven, celestial

More boys' names of Sanskrit-Telugu / Vedic origin

• Atreya — Meanings families give: Receptacle of glory, a sage and great scholar; Son of Atri, a sage

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

Indra 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.