Anasuya

In the epics

Anasuya appears in the Rāmāyaṇa as a ascetic lady, Atri's wife: Created roots and fruits during ten years of drought; made Ganga flow; performed austerities for ten thousand years.

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.

Names with a similar meaning

Names that share a word with “Free from envy or jealousy”. Meanings are the common reading rather than a ruling — the same name is often glossed differently by different sources.

• Aditi — Free, boundless, mother of gods
• Vrij — Vrindavan, free, Krishna's home
• Mukta — Liberated, free, pearl
• Pakhi — Bird, free like a bird
• Amish — Honest, sincere and free from deceit
• Vipasha — River Beas, free of bondage

More girls' names of Sanskrit origin

• Raha — Rest, happiness, freedom
• Saanvi — Goddess Lakshmi, one who follows
• Aradhya — Worthy of worship
• Diya — Lamp, divine light
• Vamika — Goddess Parvati, another name for Durga
• Aadya — First, Goddess Durga

Where this comes from

Anasuya 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.