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Names starting with R (र): 7 names from the scriptures

3 for boys and 4 for girls. With each name: its meaning, its number in the text, and the nakshatra pada and rashi of its first syllable.

In short

Here are 7 names starting with R (र): 3 for boys and 4 for girls. Each comes from the Lalita Sahasranama, Vishnu Sahasranama, Shiva Sahasranama (Mahabharata) and was checked in two separate editions; with each name are its meaning, its number in the text, and the nakshatra pada and rashi of its first syllable by the Avakahada chakra (Libra (Tula)).

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Boys’ names starting with R (र) (3)

  • रवि

    RaviBoy

    The sun, who draws up the waters (rasa)

    Source
    Vishnu Sahasranama, name 881
    Deity
    Vishnu
    Meaning based on
    Shankara’s commentary
    First syllable
    रा → Chitra pada 3 → Libra (Tula)

  • राम

    RamBoy

    The ever-blissful one in whom yogis delight; or Shri Rama, son of Dasharatha

    Source
    Vishnu Sahasranama, name 394
    Deity
    Vishnu
    Meaning based on
    Shankara’s commentary
    First syllable
    रा → Chitra pada 3 → Libra (Tula)

  • रुद्र

    RudraBoy

    Who drives sorrow away (Gita Press gloss); in the dictionaries, the roaring god

    Source
    Shiva Sahasranama (Mahabharata), name 143 (Gita Press); Pune edition, Anushasana Parva 17.46
    Deity
    Shiva
    Meaning based on
    Sanskrit dictionary: Monier-Williams p. 883; Apte p. 914
    First syllable
    रू → Swati pada 1 → Libra (Tula)

Girls’ names starting with R (र) (4)

  • रंजनी

    रञ्जनीRanjaniGirl

    Who delights her devotees

    Source
    Lalita Sahasranama, name 309
    Deity
    Lalita (the Devi)
    Meaning based on
    Bhaskararaya’s commentary
    First syllable
    रा → Chitra pada 3 → Libra (Tula)

  • रमा

    RamaGirl

    In the form of Lakshmi

    Source
    Lalita Sahasranama, name 313
    Deity
    Lalita (the Devi)
    Meaning based on
    Bhaskararaya’s commentary
    First syllable
    रा → Chitra pada 3 → Libra (Tula)

  • रम्या

    RamyaGirl

    The beautiful one

    Source
    Lalita Sahasranama, name 307
    Deity
    Lalita (the Devi)
    Meaning based on
    Bhaskararaya’s commentary
    First syllable
    रा → Chitra pada 3 → Libra (Tula)

  • राज्यलक्ष्मी

    RajyalakshmiGirl

    Royal fortune

    Source
    Lalita Sahasranama, name 689
    Deity
    Lalita (the Devi)
    Meaning based on
    Bhaskararaya’s commentary
    First syllable
    रा → Chitra pada 3 → Libra (Tula)

Names with R (र): questions and answers

What is the rashi of a name starting with R (र)?

In the Avakahada chakra the rashi of the nakshatra pada a name’s first syllable belongs to is the name rashi. The first syllables of the names on this page: रा (Chitra pada 3, Libra (Tula)): रंजनी, रमा, रम्या, रवि and others. रू (Swati pada 1, Libra (Tula)): रुद्र. This is the name rashi; the birth rashi is the Moon’s rashi at birth, found from the birth panchang.

What does the number next to the source mean?

It is the name’s place in the text: 1 to 1000 in the Vishnu and Lalita Sahasranamas, 1 to 1008 in the Mahabharata’s Shiva Sahasranama as the Gita Press counts it, and 1 to 108 in the Durga Ashtottara Shatanama. Where a name comes more than once, the first number is given.

Must the name begin with the syllable of the birth nakshatra?

Many families keep the custom of giving a name that begins with the syllable of the Moon’s nakshatra pada at birth. That is a matter of family custom. This page gives the pada of each name’s first syllable so the match can be made; the birth pada comes from the birth panchang. Ask your family purohit about the naming rite itself.

Sources

  1. Lalita Sahasranama: Lalita Sahasranamavali, sanskritdocuments.org
  2. Lalita Sahasranama: Lalita Sahasranama with Bhaskararaya’s Commentary, tr. R. Ananthakrishna Sastry (2nd ed., 1925)
  3. Vishnu Sahasranama: Mahabharata, vol. 6 (Anushasana Parva), Gita Press: numbered, with a Hindi gloss
  4. Vishnu Sahasranama: Vishnu Sahasranamavali, sanskritdocuments.org
  5. Vishnu Sahasranama: The Vishnu Sahasranama with the Bhashya of Sri Sankaracharya, tr. R. Ananthakrishna Sastry (Theosophical Publishing House, 1927)
  6. Shiva Sahasranama (Mahabharata): Mahabharata, vol. 6 (Anushasana Parva), Gita Press: numbered, with a Hindi gloss
  7. Shiva Sahasranama (Mahabharata): Mahabharata, Pune critical edition (BORI), Anushasana Parva, sanskritdocuments.org
  8. Name syllables: Brihad Avakahada Chakram, Shatapada Chakra verses 9–15; Pt. Sitarama Sharma, Ati Brihat Avakahada Chakram (1932), pp. 22–26

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