Bhaktamanasahamsika (भक्तमानसहंसिका, IAST: Bhaktamānasahaṃsikā) is a Sanskrit-origin Hindu girl-name meaning “The graceful swan dwelling in the devotee's mind-lake”. This tender name images Lalitā as a beautiful little swan (haṃsikā, diminutive of haṃsa) who makes her abode in the mind-lake (mānasa) of her devotees (bhakta), gliding there in serene elegance as her very presence purifies and beautifies the inner world.

Meaning, etymology & significance

The haṃsa (swan) is one of the most beloved symbols in Hindu poetics and spirituality: it is said to possess the power to separate milk from water (kṣīra-nīra-viveka), symbolising discernment, and it glides on the still waters of the mind-lake as an emblem of graceful liberation. The manasarovara, the celestial lake in the Himalayas, is the traditional abode of swans in Sanskrit poetry, and here the devotee's purified mind is cast as that sacred lake into which the Goddess descends as a swan. This image is deeply devotional, suggesting that sincere bhakti transforms the ordinary human mind into a holy lake worthy of the Goddess's divine presence.

Bhaktamānasahaṃsikā is a beloved epithet of Lalitā celebrated in commentaries and devotional poetry; the short form Haṃsikā or Hamsika is a charming and usable given name in its own right, widely bestowed in South India and Maharashtra. The full compound can be pronounced as: bhak-ta-maa-na-sa-HAM-si-kaa.

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Scriptural source

Bhaktamanasahamsika appears in the Lalitha Sahasranama, among the sacred names of Lalitha.

Astrology — nakshatra, rashi & numerology

By the standard Vedic correspondence between a name’s first syllable and the lunar mansion, Bhaktamanasahamsika aligns with the Mula nakshatra, under the Dhanu rashi (Moon sign). Its Chaldean name-number is 2.