Padmanayana (पद्मनयना, IAST: Padmanayanā) is a Sanskrit-origin Hindu girl-name meaning “She whose eyes are like lotuses”. From padma (lotus) and nayana (eye), this name celebrates Lalitā's eyes as being as pure, expansive, and auspicious as the full-bloomed lotus flower.

Meaning, etymology & significance

Lotus eyes are the supreme compliment in Sanskrit poetic tradition, evoking purity, depth, gentle beauty, and divine compassion simultaneously. The lotus, rooted in mud yet blossoming spotlessly above water, is the perennial symbol of spiritual liberation, and to have such eyes suggests one who sees the world with both clarity and compassion. Lalitā's lotus gaze is understood in devotional practice to purify and liberate whoever receives it.

Padmanayanā appears as an epithet of Lalitā as well as of Viṣṇu and Lakṣmī in various texts, reflecting a shared divine aesthetic. Pronounced pad-ma-na-ya-naa, it is a graceful and usable given name.

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Scriptural source

Padmanayana 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, Padmanayana aligns with the Uttara phalguni nakshatra, under the Kanya rashi (Moon sign). Its Chaldean name-number is 5.