Languages: This girl's name is used in Hindi.

Narrative: The name was borne by the wife of an ancient Hindu logician, Gautama. Her beauty attracted one of his students, who disguised himself as his master and entered Ahalya's chambers.

Gautama discovered them together, and in a rage he cursed them and turned his wife to stone. She was later restored to life by Rama, an incarnation of the god Vishnu.