Narmada

In the epics

Narmada appears in the Mahābhārata as a deity: Celestial river, sacred and auspicious, with cool waters; mother of Sudarshana through King Duryodhana.

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 “Giver of pleasure or delight”. Meanings are the common reading rather than a ruling — the same name is often glossed differently by different sources.

• Vinod — Pleasure, happiness
• Pramod — Joy, delight, pleasure
• Harshit — Joyful, filled with happiness and delight
• Nandankanan — Garden of delight, famous Bhubaneswar zoo
• Nand — Joy, delight and happiness, foster father of Krishna
• Annada — Giver of food, goddess who nourishes

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

Narmada 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.