Kalpapadapa (कल्पपादप, IAST: kalpapādapa) is a Sanskrit-origin Hindu boy-name meaning “The wish-fulfilling tree of all desires”. From kalpa (cosmic cycle / wish-granting) and pādapa (tree, 'that which drinks through its feet'), this name reveals Vishnu as the divine tree whose shade shelters every longing of the soul.

Meaning, etymology & significance

The kalpavṛkṣa, or wish-granting tree, is one of the five celebrated trees of Svarga, and Vishnu himself is praised as its very embodiment — the inexhaustible source from whom every righteous desire finds its fulfillment. The compound kalpapādapa poeticizes this image further, using pādapa (a tree) in place of vṛkṣa to emphasize the nourishing, grounded nature of his grace.

This epithet appears in the Vishnu Sahasranama as a tribute to Vishnu's boundless generosity toward sincere devotees; the name is long but can be shortened to Kalpa for practical daily use, with the full form pronounced kul-paa-PAA-du-puh.

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Scriptural source

Kalpapadapa 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, Kalpapadapa aligns with the Mrigashira nakshatra, under the Mithuna rashi (Moon sign). Its Chaldean name-number is 2.