Koshanatha (कोशनाथा, IAST: Kośanāthā) is a Sanskrit-origin Hindu girl-name meaning “She who is the sovereign mistress of all treasuries”. From kośa (treasury, sheath, storehouse) and nāthā (mistress, sovereign, protector), this name declares Lalithā as the supreme guardian of both material and spiritual wealth.

Meaning, etymology & significance

The word kośa holds a beautiful double life in Sanskrit: it means the royal treasury from which a kingdom draws its sustenance, and it also refers to the five sheaths (pañcakośa) of the human being described in the Taittirīya Upaniṣad. As Kośanāthā, Lalithā is both the sovereign of earthly abundance and the ruling presence within every layer of the human soul. To worship her under this name is to invite her sovereignty into the deepest recesses of one's own being.

This epithet of Lalithā Tripurasundarī connects her to both Vedantic philosophy and the royal iconography of the Śrīvidyā tradition; pronounced ko-sha-NAA-thaa.

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Scriptural source

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