Prajnanaghanarупini (प्रज्ञानघनरूपिणी, IAST: Prajñānaghanaрūpiṇī) is a Sanskrit-origin Hindu girl-name meaning “Embodiment of dense, concentrated supreme knowledge”. From prajñāna (supreme knowing, pure awareness), ghana (dense, solid, concentrated), and rūpiṇī (she who has the form of), this name proclaims Lalitā as consciousness so fully concentrated that it becomes, as it were, a solid mass of light.

Meaning, etymology & significance

Prajñāna in Vedāntic usage denotes the highest, immediate awareness — not mere intellectual knowledge but direct self-luminous cognition. Ghana intensifies this, suggesting that in Lalitā this awareness is not diffuse but utterly dense and complete, like a jewel that contains all light. She is therefore pure consciousness made manifest as form.

This epithet appears in the Lalitā Sahasranāma as a philosophical affirmation of the Śākta non-dual view. Due to its length and complexity it is rarely used as a given name; pronounce as pra-GYAA-na-gha-na-roo-pi-nee.

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Scriptural source

Prajnanaghanarупini appears in the Lalitha Sahasranama, among the sacred names of Lalitha.