Mayakotijagatsrashtr (मायाकोटिजगत्स्रष्टृ, IAST: Māyākoṭijagatsraṣṭṛ) is a Sanskrit-origin Hindu boy-name meaning “Creator of ten million worlds through divine maya”. From māyā (divine creative power or illusion), koṭi (ten million), jagat (the moving world) and sraṣṭṛ (creator, from sṛj 'to create'), this name exalts Vishnu as the inexhaustible cosmic creator who fashions countless universes through a single intent of His divine will.

Meaning, etymology & significance

Māyā in its Vaishnava sense is not mere illusion but the Lord's own creative potency, the miraculous power by which He projects the entire multiverse as if in sport (līlā). Koṭi intensifies this to suggest that even ten million such creative powers fall short of measuring His generative might. Sraṣṭṛ, from the root sṛj ('to release' or 'to create'), is a standard Vedic term for the cosmic creator, and jagat ('that which moves') denotes the entire animate universe; together they proclaim Vishnu as the fountainhead of an infinite plurality of worlds born from His inexhaustible māyā.

Māyākoṭijagatsraṣṭṛ is a profound theological epithet found in Vaishnava cosmological stotras, celebrating the Lord's role as infinite creator; it is almost exclusively liturgical and is rarely bestowed as a given name in its full form. Pronounced MAA-yaa-ko-ti-ja-gat-SRASH-tri, it carries a grand cosmological resonance best appreciated in puja or scripture recitation.

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Scriptural source

Mayakotijagatsrashtr 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, Mayakotijagatsrashtr aligns with the Magha nakshatra, under the Simha rashi (Moon sign). Its Chaldean name-number is 6.