The baby name Dushyantah is a Male name , 3 syllables long and is pronounced Sanskrit: /duɕjənt̪ə/; English approximation: /duːˈʃjʌn.tə/ (doo-SHYUN-tuh).
The baby name Dushyantah is a Male name , 3 syllables long and is pronounced Sanskrit: /duɕjənt̪ə/; English approximation: /duːˈʃjʌn.tə/ (doo-SHYUN-tuh).
Dushyantah is Indian, Sanskrit in Origin.
Dushyantah is a Sanskrit-derived masculine name, corresponding to classical Duṣyantaḥ. It is commonly interpreted as "destroyer of evil" or "one who punishes the wicked," from duṣ- ("bad, wicked") and a formative element yielding a sense of restraining or ending wrongdoing; hence the folk gloss "end of evil." The final -ah reflects the Sanskrit nominative -aḥ.
The name is borne by the celebrated king Duṣyanta in the Mahābhārata, husband of Śakuntalā and father of Bharata, and a central figure in Kālidāsa’s play Abhijñānaśākuntalam, which popularized the name in classical literature. In modern South Asia it remains in steady use across Hindu communities, especially in North India, with spillover into Nepal and Sri Lanka. Common variants and spellings include Dushyanta, Dushyant, Dushyanth, Dushyantha, Dushianth, and Duṣyanta (IAST). Related short forms sometimes appear as Dushy; feminine counterparts are rare.
We have no record of Dushyantah in any national birth registry or name dataset. It's the kind of name that tends to be rare, regional, or newly made up. Whichever it is, scarcely anyone else carries it.
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