Chatuhshashtikalamayi (चतुःषष्टिकलामयी, IAST: Catuḥṣaṣṭikalāmayī) is a Sanskrit-origin Hindu girl-name meaning “She who embodies all sixty-four sacred arts”. From catuḥṣaṣṭi (sixty-four) and kalāmayī (she who is made of or pervades all kalās — arts, portions, divine rays), this name reveals Lalitā as the living embodiment of all sixty-four classical arts and all sixty-four lunar rays of divine energy.

Meaning, etymology & significance

The sixty-four kalās, or sacred arts, enumerated in texts like the Kāmasūtra and the Āgamas, include music, dance, painting, poetry, cookery, archery, and the science of mantras — together forming the complete vocabulary of human creativity and refinement. Kalā also denotes a portion or ray of divine light; Lalitā as Kalāmayī is thus composed entirely of divine creative radiance, every art a beam of her luminosity projected into the world. She is at once the source of all beauty and the treasury of all skill.

This epithet connects the Goddess to the ancient Indian ideal that mastery of the arts is itself a form of spiritual practice and divine worship. Pronounced chuh-tuḥ-shash-tee-kuh-laa-muh-yee; Kalamayī is occasionally used as a shorter given name.

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Scriptural source

Chatuhshashtikalamayi 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, Chatuhshashtikalamayi aligns with the Revati nakshatra, under the Meena rashi (Moon sign). Its Chaldean name-number is 6.