Vishukrapranaharanavaragiviiryananditaa (विशुक्रप्राणहरणवाराहीवीर्यनन्दिता, IAST: Viśukraprāṇaharaṇavārāhīvīryanandita) is a Sanskrit-origin Hindu girl-name meaning “Delighted by Varahi's valor in slaying Vishukra”. This epithet celebrates the Goddess who rejoiced as the fierce Vārāhī śakti destroyed the demon Viśukra, commander of Bhaṇḍāsura's forces, whose very life-breath was extinguished by that boar-faced warrior's divine strength.

Meaning, etymology & significance

The name compounds viśukra (a demon general), prāṇaharaṇa (life-taking), vārāhī (the boar-faced warrior goddess), vīrya (heroic power), and nanditā (one who is gladdened). In the great cosmic battle described in the Lalitā Sahasranāma's narrative, Vārāhī was dispatched by Lalitā Herself and performed the heroic feat of slaying Viśukra. Lalitā, as the supreme sovereign of all śaktis, experienced the bliss of that victory as her own, hence She is called 'nanditā' — the joyfully exulted one.

This elaborate compound epithet belongs exclusively to Lalitā Tripurasundarī as described in the Brahmāṇḍa Purāṇa's Lalitopākhyāna. Due to its great length and descriptive complexity, it functions as a liturgical name rather than a personal given name; pronounced viśukra-prāṇa-haraṇa-vārāhī-vīrya-nanditā.

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Scriptural source

Vishukrapranaharanavaragiviiryananditaa 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, Vishukrapranaharanavaragiviiryananditaa aligns with the Rohini nakshatra, under the Vrishabha rashi (Moon sign). Its Chaldean name-number is 7.