Manasa

In the epics

Manasa appears in the Mahābhārata as a character: The eternal primordial being, also known as Avyakta.

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: Mrigashira
• More names starting with M

Names with a similar meaning

Names that share a word with “Meanings families give: Mind, intellect, Goddess of snakes; Mind, goddess of snakes, wished; Mind, intellect, goddess of serpents”. Meanings are the common reading rather than a ruling — the same name is often glossed differently by different sources.

• Vasuki — Meanings families give: King of serpents, Naga king; Sacred serpent of Shiva, king of snakes
• Nagabhushanam — Adorned with snakes, Shiva
• Ishita — Meanings families give: Mastery, superiority; Mastery, desired, one with divine power; Mastery, desired one; she who desires; Desired, wished for; mastery; Mastery, supremacy, greatness
• Evelyn — Possibly 'desired, wished for', from the Germanic root behind the Old French name Aveline
• Pragya — Meanings families give: Wisdom, intelligence; Wisdom, intellect, knowledge
• Manish — Lord of the mind, wise and thoughtful intellect

More girls' names of Sanskrit-Kannada / Sanskrit-Malayalam / Sanskrit-Telugu origin

• Anupama — n. incomparable, matchless
• Geetha — Meanings families give: Song, Bhagavad Gita, melody; Song, the Bhagavad Gita; Song, the Bhagavad Gita, divine melody

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

Manasa 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.