Ancient Names, Vedic Names, Mythological Names in the letter R

Ancient Names, Vedic Names, Mythological Names in the letter R

Names	Meaning
Radha	Radha is one of the gopis (cow-herding girls) of the forest of Vrindavan, Krishna plays with her during his upbringing as a young boy. The other Radha is the wife of the charioteer Adhiratha, who found an abandoned new-born boy, whom he named Karna.
Radheya	Son of Radha, a name of Karna, who as a foundling was brought up as a son by Radha, the wife of the Charioteer Adhiratha.
Rahu	Rahu is a snake that swallows the sun or the moon causing eclipses. Rahu is one of the navagrahas.
Raibhya	A sage whose hermitage was situated on the banks of the Ganga, near Rishikesh, a place, which gets its name, from Lord Vishnu appearing to him as Hrishikesh. The Pandavas during their wanderings visited it. This place is very holy. Bharata, son of Dasaratha bathed here. Indra was cleansed of his sin of killing Vritra unfairly by bathing in this ghat. Sanatkumar became one with God. Aditi, mother of the gods, prayed here to be blessed with a son.
Rajasuya	A sacrifice performed by a King to be entitled to assume the title of "Emperor".
Rakshasa	A rakshasa alternately, raksasa or rakshas is a demon or unrighteous spirit in Hinduism.
Rama	The Seventh Avatara of Vishnu. The life and heroic deeds of Rama are written in the Sanskrit epic, The Ramayana.
Ramanaka dwipa	The home of Kaliya Naga, a poisonous snake, on the banks of Jamuna river.
Rambha	An apsara in the court of Indra.
Rati	Rati is the goddess of passion and lust, and a daughter of Daksha. She married Kamadeva, the God of love.
Ravana	King of Lanka who abducted Sita, the beautiful wife of Lord Ramac. Ravana is depicted in art with up to ten heads, signifying that he had knowledge spanning all the ten directions.
Rewati	Daughter of Raja Rewat who marries Balarama.
Rigveda	The Rigveda is a collection of Vedic Sanskrit hymns counted as the holiest of the four religious texts of Hindus, known as the Vedas.
Rishabha	Rishabha, the bull, a Hindu god mentioned in epic and Puranic literature, is an unusual avatar of Vishnu. The second note of the Indian classical music.
Rishi	A rishi is regarded as a combination of a patriarch, a priest, a preceptor, an author of Vedic hymns, a sage, a saint, an ascetic, a prophet and a hermit into a single person.
Rishyamuk	Mountain on which Sugriva lived.
Rishyasringa	Son of sage Vibhandaka, who had grown up seeing no mortal except his father. The King of Anga, which was afflicted with a dire famine, to bring rain and plenty, invited him.
Ritupara	The King of Ayodhya to whom Nala became the charioteer.
Rohini	The wife of Vasudeva and mother of Balarama
Romapada	King of Anga which was once visited by a great drought.
Rudra	A Rigvedic god of the storm, the hunt, death, Nature and the Wind. Rudra is an early form of Shiva and a name of Shiva in the Shiva sahasranama.
Rukma	Elder brother of Rukmani, Heir apparent to the throne of Vidarbha. When defeated by Balarama and Krishna he established a new city Bhojakata, the capital of Vidarbha, and ruled over it.
Rukmini	Daughter of Raja Bhismak, born at Kundalpur. Rukmini was the first wife and queen of Krishna. She was an avatar of Lakshmi.