Varunimadhavihvala (वारुणीमदविह्वला, IAST: Vāruṇīmadavihvalā) is a Sanskrit-origin Hindu girl-name meaning “She who is delightfully intoxicated with divine bliss”. Composed of vāruṇī (a divine wine or the bliss-liquor of liberation), mada (intoxication, rapture), and vihvalā (overwhelmed, enraptured), this name depicts Lalithā as eternally absorbed in the ecstasy of her own supreme consciousness.

Meaning, etymology & significance

Vāruṇī refers to the intoxicating essence associated with Varuṇa and, in tantric contexts, to the amṛta-like inner bliss of the liberated state; mada here is not mere sensory inebriation but the divine rapture of self-luminous ānanda. Vihvalā, from vi + hval (to reel, to be overcome), portrays the Goddess as so immersed in her own bliss that she seems to sway in cosmic delight.

As an epithet within the Lalitā Sahasranāma, it celebrates the Śākta understanding that the Goddess herself is the very form of transcendent bliss; this lengthy compound is unsuitable as a standalone given name and is pronounced vaa-ru-nee-ma-da-vih-va-LAA.

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Scriptural source

Varunimadhavihvala 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, Varunimadhavihvala aligns with the Rohini nakshatra, under the Vrishabha rashi (Moon sign). Its Chaldean name-number is 5.