Yugadhara (युगन्धरा, IAST: Yugandharā) is a Sanskrit-origin Hindu girl-name meaning “She who upholds or sustains the cosmic ages”. From yuga (a cosmic age or era) and dhara/dharā (one who holds or sustains, from the root dhṛ), yugandharā declares that Lalitā is the eternal support who bears the turning of all cosmic ages without diminishment.

Meaning, etymology & significance

The four yugas — Kṛta, Tretā, Dvāpara, and Kali — represent vast cycles of time in Hindu cosmology, and Lalitā as Yugandharā is the unchanging ground that sustains each of these epochs in its succession. While the ages rise and fall and dharma waxes and wanes, she remains the unaltered axis of all temporal existence. This name places her beyond time even as she holds time in being, reflecting the Tantric vision of the Goddess as both immanent in the world-process and transcendent to it.

Yugandharā appears as an epithet of Lalitā and resonates with similar names found in the Devī Māhātmya, where the Goddess is praised as the sustainer of all worlds. As a given name, Yugadhara is rare but evocative, and the shorter form Dhara or Dharā is more commonly used.

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Scriptural source

Yugadhara 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, Yugadhara aligns with the Jyeshtha nakshatra, under the Vrischika rashi (Moon sign). Its Chaldean name-number is 6.