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You know about the problem of unreliable "baby names" websites? That's why it's dangerous to just trust such overly cute meanings like "bright star", and although a large number of sites just give this meaning identically I found no proper derivation of it. Anyway, no Hindi word meaning "star" that I found seemed to be part of Anuradha.

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Wikipedia says Anuradha is one of the phases of the moon:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anuradha_(nakshatra)

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And in this complete list of those Indian moon phases a meaning of "following rādhā" is given:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nakshatras

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"radha" may be this goddess:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radha

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And maybe this is the prefix Anu-:
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E0%A4%85%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%81-#Hindi

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But I confess I don't know enough about all things Indian to properly confirm this alternative, moon-and-religion-based meaning...