Sharasandhaananirdhuutadharanimandalaodaya (शरसन्धाननिर्धूतधरणीमण्डलोदय, IAST: Śarasandhānanirdhūtadharaṇīmaṇḍalodaya) is a Sanskrit-origin Hindu boy-name meaning “He whose arrow-stringing shook the entire earth sphere”. From śara (arrow), sandhāna (stringing/fitting), nirdhūta (shaken/stirred), dharaṇī (the earth), maṇḍala (sphere/orb), and udaya (arising/manifestation), this name celebrates the moment when Viṣṇu's avatāra Rāma strung the divine bow, sending tremors through the whole earth.

Meaning, etymology & significance

Śara refers to the arrow, and sandhāna to the act of nocking or stringing — together śarasandhāna recalls the legendary feat in which Rāma bent and strung Śiva's enormous bow at Janaka's svayaṃvara, an act accompanied by cosmic reverberation. Nirdhūta (thoroughly shaken) with dharaṇīmaṇḍala (the disk of the earth) captures the mythic scale of this moment: the entire terrestrial sphere trembled at the Lord's power. This name is thus a poetic monument to that singular heroic instant.

This grand compound is found in the expanded Viṣṇu Sahasranāma as a tribute to Rāma's feat at Mithilā and functions best in liturgical recitation; it is far too unwieldy as a personal name in daily life. Each compound element should be honored in pronunciation: śa-ra-san-dhā-na-nir-dhū-ta-dha-ra-ṇī-maṇ-ḍa-lo-da-ya.

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Scriptural source

Sharasandhaananirdhuutadharanimandalaodaya 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, Sharasandhaananirdhuutadharanimandalaodaya aligns with the Hasta nakshatra, under the Kanya rashi (Moon sign). Its Chaldean name-number is 7.