Chandasara (छन्दःसारा, IAST: chandaḥsārā) is a Sanskrit-origin Hindu girl-name meaning “The essence and quintessence of all Vedic metres”. From chandas (Vedic metre, one of the six Vedāṅgas) and sārā (essence, core, the finest extract), this name declares that the Goddess is the living, luminous soul that animates every rhythmic pattern of the Vedas.

Meaning, etymology & significance

Chandas, meaning Vedic prosody, is among the limbs of the Veda without which the sacred hymns cannot be rightly recited or realised. Sāra points to the irreducible, most precious essence of a thing. By combining these, the name teaches that the Goddess is not a name within a metre but the very vitality that makes metre sacred and effective. All sound and rhythm in the cosmos ultimately resolve into her.

This epithet of Lalitā Tripurasundarī highlights her identity with the foundational structures of sacred language. Pronounced chhan-daḥ-saa-raa, the visarga in chandaḥ gives a soft aspirate before sārā.

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Scriptural source

Chandasara 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, Chandasara aligns with the Revati nakshatra, under the Meena rashi (Moon sign). Its Chaldean name-number is 8.