Indulekha

Classical Sanskrit origin

इन्दुलेखा (indulekhā): a digit of the moon.

Source: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899), a public-domain scholarly reference — not every popular name today traces to a classical dictionary entry, so this section only appears where a verified match exists.

Names with a similar meaning

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

• Chandralekha — = -, a digit of the moon
• Chandrakala — Meanings families give: Digit of moon, phase of the crescent; Phase of the moon, moonbeam; Digit of the moon, beautiful as moonbeam
• Indukala — a digit of the moon
• Indurekha — a digit of the moon
• Krishna — (with or without ) the dark half of the lunar month from full to new moon
• Soumya — Meanings families give: Mild, gentle, pleasing and of pleasant nature; Gentle, soft, moon-like, calm; Gentle, calm; moon-faced; graceful; Gentle, pleasing, soft, cool

Where this comes from

Indulekha's etymology is verified against Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899). 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.