Keshari

In the epics

Keshari appears in the Rāmāyaṇa as a commander: Hanumat's father.

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: Simha
• Nakshatra: Magha
• More names starting with K

Names with a similar meaning

Names that share a word with “Lion, tawny-colored”. Meanings are the common reading rather than a ruling — the same name is often glossed differently by different sources.

• Kapil — Sage and philosopher, tawny colored, sun-like
• Neel — Meanings families give: Blue, sapphire; Blue, sapphire colored like the sky and ocean; Blue, sapphire; Lord Vishnu; Blue, like the sky
• Rohini — Meanings families give: Red star, a bright star; Red cow, ascending star, Radha; Red, a star, one who ascends; Red cow, the moon, a star; Red-colored, the star Aldebaran, wife of Moon
• Nilima — Meanings families give: Blue, sky-colored; Blueness; the deep blue color; Blue, color of deep sky
• Ranjith — Meanings families give: Pleased, delighted; Delighted, colored, victorious; Pleased, delighted, coloured with joy
• Lohith — Red, copper-colored, Mars

More boys' names of Sanskrit-Odia origin

• Balabhadra — strong, powerful
• Patitapaban — Savior of the fallen, Lord Jagannath
• Jagabandhu — Friend of the world, Lord Jagannath
• Krushna — Lord Krishna, dark and beautiful
• Nilamadhab — Blue Lord, original name of Lord Jagannath
• Debashis — Blessing of the gods

Other names under Simha rashi

• Lavanya — beauty, loveliness
• Krishna — (with or without ) the dark half of the lunar month from full to new moon
• Surya — the wife of the god
• Lakshay — Target, aim, goal
• Harshil — Joyful, happy
• Misha — Sweet like nectar, joyful

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

Where this comes from

Keshari 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.