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Dasharath

Dasharatha; having ten chariots

Dasharath means “Dasharatha; having ten chariots”.

Origin language
Sanskrit / Kannada
First letter
D
Historical records
3,712

MEANING & CONTEXT

What does Dasharath mean?

Dasharatha is the Sanskrit name built from dasha, ten, and ratha, chariot. In the Ramayana, King Dasharatha rules Ayodhya and is the father of Rama. The epic describes his descent from the royal line of Ikshvaku.

Pronunciation

IAST: daśaratha

Spellings in Indian scripts

Devanagari

दशरथ

Letter-by-letter: daśaratha

Conventional spelling

Kannada

ದಶರಥ

Conventional spelling

About spelling and pronunciation

HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS

Dasharath in Indian usage

3,712 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.

The available aggregate sex counts are withheld or incomplete.

By birth decade

Dasharath: records by birth decade1940s: 2761940s1950s: 4631950s1960s: 7341960s1970s: 9161970s1980s: 8181980s1990s: 3901990sOther decades: 115Other decades
Recorded birth years 1910–2001.
Birth decadeRecords
1940s276
1950s463
1960s734
1970s916
1980s818
1990s390
Other decades115

By state or territory

State / territoryRecords
Karnataka3,712
How to read these numbers

Small counts and a second count where needed are withheld for privacy; an omitted value is not zero. Coverage, dates and suppression.

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Sources

  1. Historical Indian voter-record totals, v3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)

    Historical usage; CC0 1.0; birth years 1910–2001

  2. Monier-Williams, daśaratha, p. 472,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)

Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.