Sarvadaya (सर्वादय, IAST: Sarvādaya) is a Sanskrit-origin Hindu boy-name meaning “The source and origin of all things”. From sarva (all) and ādaya (giving rise to, originating from), this name proclaims Vishnu as the primordial cause from whom every being, world, and moment of time proceeds — the fountainhead of total creation.

Meaning, etymology & significance

The element ādi means 'beginning, origin, source,' and in compound with daya or the suffix aya it connotes 'that which gives rise to all beginnings.' The Vishnu Purana opens with the affirmation that Vishnu is the ādikārana, the first cause, from whose sankalpa (divine intention) the entire cosmos emerges. Sarvādaya thus expresses the same cosmological truth as the opening of the Gospel of John in the Christian tradition, but couched in Vaishnava devotional language: all that exists has its origin in the Lord.

As an epithet of Vishnu, Sarvadaya is invoked in cosmological hymns celebrating the Lord as creator and sustainer of all that is. Pronounced sar-vā-da-ya, the name has a flowing cadence; needsReview is set true because the dative sarvādaye may also be parsed as sarva + ādaye (relating to ādaya, gift or grace), which would shade the meaning toward 'giver of all gifts.'

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Scriptural source

Sarvadaya 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, Sarvadaya aligns with the Shatabhisha nakshatra, under the Kumbha rashi (Moon sign). Its Chaldean name-number is 2.