Kusha

In the epics

Kusha appears in the Rāmāyaṇa as a prince: Illustrious prince, resident of Valmiki's hermitage; accomplished in the Vedas, like a mirror image of 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.

Names with a similar meaning

Names that share a word with “Sacred grass used in Vedic rituals; twin son of Rama and Sita”. Meanings are the common reading rather than a ruling — the same name is often glossed differently by different sources.

• Kush — Sacred grass, son of Rama
• Durba — Sacred grass used in rituals; evergreen
• Ava — Of uncertain meaning; used as a variant of Eva/Eve, an anglicization of the Irish name Aoife, or from an uncertain Germanic root
• Munmun — Little one; beloved pet form used as formal name
• Subrata — One who follows good rituals; virtuous
• Ritwik — Priest, one who performs sacred Vedic rituals

More boys' names of Sanskrit origin

• Aarav — Peaceful sound, wisdom
• Arjun — Bright, shining, silver
• Reyansh — Ray of light, part of God Vishnu
• Vihaan — Dawn, beginning of new era
• Aryan — Noble, of high birth
• Krish — Short form of Krishna, dark, attractive

Where this comes from

Kusha 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.