Gambhira (गम्भीरा, IAST: gambhīrā) is a Sanskrit-origin Hindu girl-name meaning “She who is profound, deep, and unfathomable”. From gambhīra (deep, profound, grave, unfathomable — applied to sound, water, or the nature of a being), the name evokes the Goddess as an inexhaustible depth that no measure of intellect or imagination can fully plumb.

Meaning, etymology & significance

Gambhīra, possibly related to the root gā + mbh (to go deep), is used in Sanskrit poetry for the depth of the ocean, the resonance of a great voice, or the inscrutable profundity of a majestic person. Applied to the Goddess, it signals that her nature — her compassion, her power, her mystery — is bottomless. Even the highest yogis and the greatest scriptures only approach her fathomless depth without exhausting it.

As an epithet of Lalitā, Gambhīrā is paired with other names that evoke her cosmic vastness. It is pronounced gam-bhee-raa and makes a dignified, melodious, and usable given name.

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Scriptural source

Gambhira 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, Gambhira aligns with the Dhanishta nakshatra, under the Makara rashi (Moon sign). Its Chaldean name-number is 1.