Urvashi

In the epics

Urvashi appears in the Mahābhārata as a other: Along with Purvachitti, marvelled at Shuka as he passed Mount Malaya.

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 “Celestial beauty, divine and heavenly maiden”. Meanings are the common reading rather than a ruling — the same name is often glossed differently by different sources.

• Azra — Chaste, virgin, pure maiden
• Chanu — Beautiful maiden
• Kumari — Young girl, maiden, princess
• Chandakunwar — Moon princess, lunar royal maiden
• Devansh — Part of God, divine fraction and heavenly portion
• Dhivya — Divine, heavenly, sacred

More girls' names of Sanskrit-Punjabi origin

• Raveena — Sunny, radiant like the sun
• Chetna — Consciousness, divine awareness
• Manpriya — Beloved of the mind, dear to the heart
• Kamalpreet — Love of the lotus, devoted to purity
• Seetal — Cool, calm and refreshing
• Eisha — Goddess, divine one with cosmic power

Where this comes from

Urvashi 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.