Daurbhagyatulavatula (दौर्भाग्यतूलवातूला, IAST: Daurbhāgyatūlavātūlā) is a Sanskrit-origin Hindu girl-name meaning “Storm-wind scattering the cotton of misfortune”. A poetic compound: daurbhāgya (misfortune, ill-luck) is likened to tūla (cotton, fluff), and Lalitā is the vātūlā (whirlwind, gale) that disperses it instantly and completely.

Meaning, etymology & significance

The image is strikingly homely: misfortune and bad luck, for all their seeming weight in human life, are as light as cotton fluff before the storm-wind of Lalitā's grace. Tūla also refers to the fluffy seed-bearing cotton that drifts away at the slightest breeze. Vātūlā, derived from vāta (wind), means a powerful, swirling wind. Together they form one of the Sahasranāma's most charming similes for divine grace.

This compound epithet is more poetic than nameable as a given name, yet it is cherished in devotional recitation for its reassurance of the Goddess's power over fate. Pronounced daur-bhaag-ya-too-la-vaa-too-laa.

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Scriptural source

Daurbhagyatulavatula 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, Daurbhagyatulavatula aligns with the Pushya nakshatra, under the Karka rashi (Moon sign). Its Chaldean name-number is 7.