Panchapretasanasina (पञ्चप्रेतासनासीना, IAST: Pañcapretāsanāsīnā) is a Sanskrit-origin Hindu girl-name meaning “She who is seated upon the throne of five corpses”. This profound tantric epithet combines pañca (five), preta (corpse, inert being), āsana (seat, throne), and āsīnā (seated), proclaiming Lalitā as the dynamic Śakti who animates the five quiescent forms of Śiva.

Meaning, etymology & significance

In the Śrī Vidyā tantric cosmology, the five pretas (corpses) represent the five forms of Śiva — Brahmā, Viṣṇu, Rudra, Maheśvara, and Sadāśiva — in their unmanifest, inert state prior to being vivified by the Goddess's Śakti. By being seated upon them as her throne, Lalitā is proclaimed as the supreme animating power without whom even the greatest gods cannot function. This daring imagery conveys that consciousness itself is lifeless without the energy of the Divine Mother.

This epithet is one of the most philosophically dense in the entire Sahasranāma and is central to tantric worship of the Devī; given its compound length and esoteric connotation, it is not suitable as a given name. Pronounced pan-cha-pre-taa-sa-naa-see-naa.

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Scriptural source

Panchapretasanasina 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, Panchapretasanasina aligns with the Uttara phalguni nakshatra, under the Kanya rashi (Moon sign). Its Chaldean name-number is 9.