Varadriptajagacchalyapaulastyakulakrintana (वरदृप्तजगच्छल्यपौलस्त्यकुलकृन्तन, IAST: Varadṛptajagacchhalyapaulastyakulakṛntana) is a Sanskrit-origin Hindu boy-name meaning “Cutter of the Paulastya clan, a thorn in the boon-proud world”. From vara (boon) + dṛpta (proud, intoxicated) + jagat (world) + chalya (thorn, affliction) + paulastya (descended from Pulastya, i.e., Rāvaṇa's lineage) + kula (clan/family) + kṛntana (one who cuts, severs), this name hails Rama as the divine surgeon who excised the Rākṣasa clan that had become a festering torment to the boon-intoxicated world.

Meaning, etymology & significance

Rāvaṇa was called paulastya, descended from the sage Pulastya, yet he had grown dṛpta — arrogantly intoxicated — on boons (vara) granted by Brahma and Shiva. This pride made the paulastya-kula a chalya, a sharp thorn or painful affliction (from the root śal, to wound) embedded in the body of the world. Rama as kṛntana — the cutter, from the root kṛt, to sever — performed the cosmic surgery of excising this lineage of adharma, restoring the universe to health and balance.

This epithet belongs to Lord Vishnu-Rama in the Sahasranama tradition and encapsulates the theological meaning of the Rāmāyaṇa in a single compound; it is not suitable as a personal given name due to its composite nature. Pronounced va-ra-drip-ta-ja-gach-chha-lya-pau-las-tya-ku-la-krin-ta-na.

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Scriptural source

Varadriptajagacchalyapaulastyakulakrintana 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, Varadriptajagacchalyapaulastyakulakrintana aligns with the Rohini nakshatra, under the Vrishabha rashi (Moon sign). Its Chaldean name-number is 6.