Kunti

In the epics

Kunti appears in the Mahābhārata as a other: Clung to Gandhari and continued to advance despite Yudhishthira's request to return.

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: Mithun
• Nakshatra: Punarvasu
• More names starting with K

Names with a similar meaning

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

• Pritha — Palm of the hand; mother of Pandavas
• Vidur — Wise, knowledgeable uncle of the Pandavas in Mahabharata
• Zubin — Short spear, one with honour
• Vadivel — Lord Murugan with the spear
• Kumaravel — Young Vel, Murugan with his spear
• Velmurgan — Murugan of the spear

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

Other names under Mithun rashi

• Krish — Short form of Krishna, dark, attractive
• Yash — Success, glory, fame
• Kavya — Poem, lyric, literature
• Dev — God, divine being
• Jiya — Heart, sweetheart
• Divya — Divine, brilliant, beautiful

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

Where this comes from

Kunti 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.