Vamadevī (वामदेवी, IAST: Vāmadevī) is a Sanskrit-origin Hindu girl-name meaning “Beautiful goddess; goddess of the left, auspicious path”. Vāma can mean beautiful, left (as in the left-hand tantric path), or even vomiting forth creation; as Vāmadevī, Lalitā is the resplendent divine lady who governs the liberating, contrary current that dissolves conventional limits.

Meaning, etymology & significance

In Śaiva cosmology, Vāmadeva is one of the five faces of Śiva, associated with the creative and sustaining power oriented toward the north and left; Vāmadevī is his śakti-counterpart, expressing the same creative-generative mystery in feminine form. The name thus honors Lalitā as both supremely beautiful and as the sovereign of that sacred transgressive grace that opens hidden doors. It also appears as an independent goddess name in several purāṇic lists.

Lalitā is identified with Vāmadevī in tantric commentaries that link her to the five Brahman faces; the name is pronounced 'Vaa-ma-dev-ee' and the variant Vamadevi is common in South Indian usage.

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Scriptural source

Vamadevī 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, Vamadevī aligns with the Rohini nakshatra, under the Vrishabha rashi (Moon sign). Its Chaldean name-number is 9.