Munimanasamhamsika (मुनिमानसहंसिका, IAST: Munimānasahaṃsikā) is a Sanskrit-origin Hindu girl-name meaning “The swan gliding on the lake of sages' minds”. Compounded from muni (sage), mānasa (mind, or the celestial lake Mānasa), and haṃsikā (little swan, feminine of haṃsa), this name portrays Lalitā as the graceful divine swan who sports serenely on the clear, still minds of realized sages.

Meaning, etymology & significance

The haṃsa (swan) is a supremely auspicious Vedic symbol of the Self (paramātman) that discerns truth from illusion, just as a swan is said to separate milk from water. Mānasa evokes both 'mind' and Lake Mānasarovar, the celestial abode of swans. Lalitā as Haṃsikā is thus the Self-luminous consciousness that moves freely and purely within the purified intellect of great sages.

This poetic epithet is beloved in Śrī Vidyā meditation literature, where the guru invites the student to perceive the Devī's grace as the effortless, buoyant movement of pure awareness within a stilled mind. As a given name, the shorter form Hamsika or Manasamhamsika is more practical; pronounce the full form mu-ni-MAA-na-sa-HAM-si-kaa.

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Scriptural source

Munimanasamhamsika 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, Munimanasamhamsika aligns with the Magha nakshatra, under the Simha rashi (Moon sign). Its Chaldean name-number is 7.