Nirvanasukhadayini (निर्वाणसुखदायिनी, IAST: Nirvāṇasukhadāyinī) is a Sanskrit-origin Hindu girl-name meaning “She who bestows the supreme bliss of liberation”. From nirvāṇa (liberation, the final extinction of suffering and ego), sukha (bliss, joy), and dāyinī (she who gives, bestows), this name proclaims Lalitā as the gracious Goddess who grants the ultimate freedom.

Meaning, etymology & significance

While nirvāṇa is most familiar as a Buddhist term, it is also used in Śaiva-Śākta texts to denote the highest liberation, the cessation of saṃsāric suffering and the dissolution into pure consciousness. Sukhadāyinī adds the warmth of the Goddess-tradition: this liberation is not a cold extinction but a flooding, blissful fullness. To take refuge in Lalitā is thus to receive the greatest possible gift, the joy that accompanies true freedom.

This epithet closes a thematic sequence of names emphasising Lalitā's power to grant ultimate spiritual gifts, and it is used by commentators to affirm her identity with the Brahman of the Upaniṣads. Nirvana or Sukha could serve as shorter devotional names; Sukhadayini itself is a beautiful, though lengthy, name for a girl.

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Scriptural source

Nirvanasukhadayini 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, Nirvanasukhadayini aligns with the Anuradha nakshatra, under the Vrischika rashi (Moon sign). Its Chaldean name-number is 6.