Manthara

In the epics

Manthara appears in the Rāmāyaṇa as a other: Wicked in her thoughts, desiring to cause injury and violence to Rama.

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: Purva Phalguni
• More names starting with M

Names with a similar meaning

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

• Manish — Lord of the mind, wise and thoughtful intellect
• Sumathi — Meanings families give: Of good mind, intelligent; Good mind, wise, intelligent; Good intellect, wise, thoughtful
• Mankunwar — Princess of the mind, thoughtful royal
• Chitarth — One with a pictured mind, thoughtful and artistic
• Aarav — Meanings families give: Peaceful, calm; Peaceful, calm, wise; Peaceful sound, wisdom; Calm, peaceful
• Rishi — Meanings families give: Sage, wise one; Sage, a holy seer who perceives divine truth; Sage, seer, enlightened one; Ancient sage, wise one

More girls' names of Sanskrit origin

• Raha — Rest, happiness, freedom
• Saanvi — Meanings families give: Goddess Lakshmi; Goddess Lakshmi, one who follows; Goddess Lakshmi, knowledge
• Aradhya — Worthy of worship
• Diya — Meanings families give: Lamp, light; Lamp, divine light
• Vamika — Meanings families give: Goddess Durga, moving to the left; Goddess Parvati, another name for Durga
• Aadya — First, Goddess Durga

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

Manthara 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.