name
Radhika
RAH-dee-kah
ˈrɑːdiːkɑListen
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Syllable breakdown
Radhika
Name meaning and origin
- Origin
- Kannada (India/Karnataka)
- Meaning
- a Kannada and Sanskrit name meaning she who is worshipped or the successful one, also a diminutive form of Radha, the beloved of Krishna in the Vaishnava devotional tradition; Radha represents the paradigmatic figure of devotional love in the Bhakti tradition, and her relationship with Krishna has been the subject of an immense body of poetry, music, and philosophy in all South Asian languages including Kannada; to name a daughter Radhika is to invoke the model of intense, selfless, devoted love that Radha embodies and to connect the child to the Bhakti tradition's celebration of loving devotion as the highest form of spiritual relationship; the name is beloved across Kannada, Telugu, Tamil, and Hindi speaking communities and has been borne by many distinguished women in Indian literature, cinema, and public life
- Gender
- female
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