Talodari (तलोदरी, IAST: talodharī) is a Sanskrit-origin Hindu girl-name meaning “She with a slender, delicate waist”. From tala (palm, flat surface, or in this context suggesting thinness comparable to a palm's breadth) and udara (belly, abdomen) with the feminine suffix ī, the name lovingly describes the Goddess's exquisitely slender waist celebrated in her stotra.

Meaning, etymology & significance

In the poetic tradition of Śākta stotras, the physical form of Lalitā is described with great devotional care as a reflection of her divine perfection. Talodara or talodharī employs the imagery of thinness — a waist as slender as a tāla leaf or a palm's width — as an aesthetic and spiritual signifier of her transcendent beauty. Such descriptions in the Sahasranāma tradition are understood not as mere flattery but as meditative contemplation of the svarūpa.

This name is an epithet of Śrī Lalitā Mahātripurasundarī that appears in the context of her divine physical description. Pronounced ta-lo-dha-ree, it makes a graceful and usable given name.

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Scriptural source

Talodari 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, Talodari aligns with the Purva phalguni nakshatra, under the Simha rashi (Moon sign). Its Chaldean name-number is 5.