Kalantakadijit (कालान्तकादिजित्, IAST: Kālāntakādijit) is a Sanskrit-origin Hindu boy-name meaning “Conqueror of Kala, Antaka, and all such powers”. From kāla (time/death), antaka (destroyer), ādi (and so forth), and jit (conqueror), this epithet proclaims Vishnu's supremacy over every force of dissolution and destruction.

Meaning, etymology & significance

The compound kālāntakādijit unites kāla (cosmic time and death), antaka (Yama, the ender of life), the suffix ādi (indicating all similar powers), and jit (one who has conquered), revealing Vishnu as the lord who transcends every agency of mortality. While Kāla and Antaka are themselves fearsome deities, they bow before the Supreme, for He is the substratum of time itself rather than its subject. Meditating on this name inspires fearlessness and liberation from anxiety about death.

This compound epithet appears in the Vishnu Sahasranama tradition as a celebration of Vishnu's absolute sovereignty over cosmic dissolution; its multi-syllabic structure makes it more appropriate as a devotional title than a daily given name.

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Scriptural source

Kalantakadijit appears in the Vishnu Sahasranama, among the sacred names of Vishnu.

Astrology — nakshatra, rashi & numerology

By the standard Vedic correspondence between a name’s first syllable and the lunar mansion, Kalantakadijit aligns with the Mrigashira nakshatra, under the Mithuna rashi (Moon sign). Its Chaldean name-number is 4.