the name comes from native word "kodacha" or "kodashi", which means kutaja flowers, and "adri", a sanskrit word for mountain, both combined together to coin the word kodachadri. "kuţaja" in sanskrit means "girimallika" or "jasmine of the hill" ("wrightia antidysenterica"). the hilly region that is full of "jasmine of the hills" plants is "kutajagiri". it is also called "kutachadri" and "kodashi parvatha".