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Gender Feminine
Usage Indian (Rare), Hinduism
Scripts चार्वङ्गी(Sanskrit) चार्वंगी(Hindi, Marathi, Nepali)
Meaning & History
Means "beautiful-bodied" in Sanskrit (from चारु (cāru) "beautiful, lovely" and अङ्ग (aṅga) "a limb of the body; the body"), a word used in the Shiva Purana to describe the goddess Kali (called 'Kālī of exquisite body (i.e., cārvaṅgī) and comely appearance').