Samastapātakadhvaṃsin (समस्तपातकध्वंसिन्, IAST: samastapātakadhvaṃsin) is a Sanskrit-origin Hindu boy-name meaning “Destroyer of all sins and transgressions entirely”. From samasta (all, entire), pātaka (sin, transgression — from pat, to fall), and dhvaṃsin (destroyer, one who causes collapse — from dhvaṃs, to crumble/destroy), this name offers the most comprehensive assurance of divine mercy: no sin of any category survives the Lord's purifying grace.

Meaning, etymology & significance

Pātaka literally means 'that which causes one to fall,' capturing the traditional understanding of sin as a force that pulls the soul downward from its dharmic and spiritual station. Dhvaṃsin implies not a gentle cleansing but a structural demolition — the entire architecture of past transgression is brought to ruin. Samasta ensures total scope: no pātaka, whether mahāpātaka (great sin) or upapātaka (minor transgression), is exempted from this annihilating grace.

This epithet is especially beloved in prāyaścitta (atonement) liturgies and in Vaiṣṇava prayers for liberation from karmic burdens. The compound is too elaborate for everyday use as a given name, but Dhvaṃsin alone is occasionally found as a Vaiṣṇava epithet.

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Scriptural source

Samastapātakadhvaṃsin 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, Samastapātakadhvaṃsin aligns with the Shatabhisha nakshatra, under the Kumbha rashi (Moon sign). Its Chaldean name-number is 4.