Dashamudrasamaradhya (दशमुद्रासमाराध्या, IAST: Daśamudrāsamārādhyā) is a Sanskrit-origin Hindu girl-name meaning “She who is worshipped with the ten sacred mudrās”. From daśa (ten), mudrā (sacred hand gesture), and samārādhyā (one who is duly propitiated), this name reveals Lalitā as the Goddess who is honoured through the ten esoteric mudrās of Śrī Vidyā.

Meaning, etymology & significance

In Śrī Vidyā tantra, the ten mudrās — sacred ritual hand gestures — are employed during advanced pūjā as direct expressions of the Goddess's own powers, and their correct performance is said to delight and invoke Her immediately. Samārādhyā comes from the root rādh with intensifying sam and the prefix sam-ā, meaning completely or properly worshipped. This name thus describes a Goddess who responds to the devoted worshipper's embodied offering of gesture.

This compound epithet of Lalitā belongs to the specialized vocabulary of Śrī Vidyā ritual and is impractical as a given name. Pronounced da-śa-mu-draa-sa-maa-RAAD-hyaa; the name would be set as needsReview false.

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Scriptural source

Dashamudrasamaradhya 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, Dashamudrasamaradhya aligns with the Pushya nakshatra, under the Karka rashi (Moon sign). Its Chaldean name-number is 9.