Tarunadityapatala (तरुणादित्यपाटला, IAST: Taruṇādityapāṭalā) is a Sanskrit-origin Hindu girl-name meaning “She who glows like the rosy hue of a young sun”. Taruṇa (young, fresh), āditya (sun), and pāṭalā (pale red, rose-pink colour) together paint a picture of the Devī as radiant with the delicate rose-red glow of the newly risen morning sun, symbolising freshness, grace, and sovereign splendour.

Meaning, etymology & significance

Pāṭalā refers specifically to the soft rose-pink or pale crimson colour associated in Sanskrit poetry with the trumpet-flower (Stereospermum suaveolens) as well as the blush of dawn. The young sun (taruṇāditya) at the moment of rising bears exactly this gentle, warm rosy hue — full of promise and soft brilliance. The epithet thus places Lalitā in the imagery of dawn: new, gentle, all-illuminating, and boundlessly beautiful.

Lalitā Mahātripurasundarī is frequently described in rosy and red tones throughout the sahasranāma, and this name adds a poetic solar dimension to Her complexion. As a girl's name the full compound is lengthy; Patala or Patali (the rose-pink one) may serve as a shorter, usable form.

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Scriptural source

Tarunadityapatala 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, Tarunadityapatala aligns with the Purva phalguni nakshatra, under the Simha rashi (Moon sign). Its Chaldean name-number is 3.