Kalamala (कलामाला, IAST: Kalāmālā) is a Sanskrit-origin Hindu girl-name meaning “She who is a garland of divine arts and phases”. Kalā means an art, a subtle fraction, or a lunar phase, and mālā means garland or continuous string; Kalāmālā names Lalitā as the luminous threading together of all sixty-four arts and all lunar phases into a single divine adornment.

Meaning, etymology & significance

In the Śrīvidyā tradition the sixty-four kalās are sacred arts that include music, dance, poetry, science, and spiritual disciplines; the Goddess presides over each and weaves them together like flowers on a garland. The lunar kalās—the sixteen phases of the Moon culminating in the amā tithi—are also Her divine body. To call Her Kalāmālā is to see all human creativity and all cosmic rhythms as expressions of Her singular, radiant wholeness.

Kalāmālā is a euphonious name well suited for a girl child, conveying both artistic grace and spiritual completeness; pronounced ka-laa-MAA-laa, four syllables with the second and fourth long.

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Scriptural source

Kalamala 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, Kalamala aligns with the Mrigashira nakshatra, under the Mithuna rashi (Moon sign). Its Chaldean name-number is 7.