Vyahriti (व्याहृति, IAST: Vyāhṛti) is a Sanskrit-origin Hindu girl-name meaning “Sacred utterance; the divine creative word”. From vi + ā + hṛ ('to bring forth completely'), Vyāhṛti names the primordial sacred syllables — bhūḥ, bhuvaḥ, svaḥ — through which Lalitā manifests the cosmos as living speech.

Meaning, etymology & significance

The vyāhṛtis are the three (or seven) sacred utterances chanted at the heart of Gāyatrī worship, representing earth, atmosphere, and heaven. Lalitā as Vyāhṛti is the divine voice that speaks creation into being, each syllable resonating as a vibratory seed of a cosmic plane. Her identity with these utterances underscores the Tantric teaching that reality is fundamentally sonic — nāda-brahman made manifest.

This name appears in the Lalitā Sahasranāma as an epithet of the Devī in her role as primordial speech (Vāc). Pronounced vyā-hṛ-ti, with a crisp retroflex ṛ, it lends itself to the gentle short form Vyahriti in everyday use.

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Scriptural source

Vyahriti appears in the Lalitha Sahasranama, among the sacred names of Lalitha.