Kapila

In the epics

Kapila appears in the Rāmāyaṇa as a sage/god: The eternal Vasudeva who has assumed the form of Kapila.

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.

• Rashi: Kark
• Nakshatra: Ashlesha
• More names starting with K

Names with a similar meaning

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

• Aruna — Dawn, reddish, charioteer of sun
• Jahnavi — River Ganga, daughter of sage Jahnu
• Agastya — Name of a sage, mountain thrower
• Rishi — Sage, seer, enlightened one
• Koushik — From the Kushika lineage; sage Vishwamitra
• Kashyap — A sage, seer

More unisex names of Sanskrit-Odia origin

• Satya — Truth, truthful person
• Kumud — White lotus, water lily
• Mithuna — Pair, couple, Gemini zodiac
• Mahanadi — Great river of Odisha, powerful as the Mahanadi

Other names under Kark rashi

• Priya — Beloved, dear one, darling
• Divyansh — Divine part, a sacred portion of the supreme divine
• Disha — Direction, path, guiding light
• Ganesh — Lord of all beings, elephant-headed god
• Khushi — Happiness, joy
• Devansh — Part of God, divine fraction and heavenly portion

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

Where this comes from

Kapila 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.