Paramaijyotih (परमं ज्योतिः, IAST: Paramaṃ Jyotiḥ) is a Sanskrit-origin Hindu girl-name meaning “The supreme, transcendent, self-luminous light”. From parama (highest, supreme, beyond all else) and jyotiḥ (light, radiance, flame), this epithet names Lalitā as the ultimate self-luminous light that illumines every other light in existence.

Meaning, etymology & significance

Jyotiḥ in the Vedic tradition is not merely physical light but the self-luminous awareness (svayamprakāśa) that underlies all perception — it is the light of consciousness itself. Parama intensifies this to the superlative degree: Lalitā is not one light among many but the very ground of all luminosity, that which shines in the sun, moon, fire, and in the awareness of every being. The Muṇḍaka Upaniṣad famously declares that by the light of this supreme light alone do all things shine.

This is a two-word descriptive epithet rather than a single given name and is perhaps better understood as a meditative title; as a given name it might be rendered simply as Jyoti or Paramajyoti. Pronounced pa-ra-mam jyo-tiḥ, this name carries the full weight of Vedic cosmological thought.

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Scriptural source

Paramaijyotih 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, Paramaijyotih aligns with the Uttara phalguni nakshatra, under the Kanya rashi (Moon sign). Its Chaldean name-number is 1.