Entry № 2338 · Sanskrit origin

Dashamahavidya Dashamahavidya — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ DAH-shah-mah-hah-VEED-yah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Ten great wisdoms / Tantric Devis"
Syllables
6
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "ten great wisdoms / tantric devis".

Dashamahavidya is from the Sanskrit Daśamahāvidyā. CE pan-Shakta heritage.

CE pan-Shakta heritage

The name in its native script.

दशमहाविद्या
Transliteration
Daśamahāvidyā
Pronunciation
/ ˌdɑː.ʃə.mə.hɑːˈviːd.jə /
Root
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Grammatical form
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Where Dashamahavidya stands.

Dashamahavidya does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Dashamahavidyas before her.

Real people

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In fiction
10 Mahavidyas Kali Tara Tripurasundari Bhuvaneshvari Bhairavi Chinnamasta Dhumavati Bagalamukhi Matangi Kamalatmika / Sati Shiva Daksha-Yajna Devi Bhagavata / Mahavidya-Rahasyam Tantric / Sri Vidya Kula / Bhaskararaya 18th c. Aparadhi-Rahasyam
Sanskrit ten-great-wisdoms + daśa ten + mahā great + vidyā knowledge + Daśa-Mahāvidyā ten-tantric-Mahā-Devi-forms Kali Śakta-Tantric + Kālī + Tārā + Tripurasundarī + Bhuvaneśvarī + Bhairavī + Chinnamastā + Dhūmāvatī + Bagalāmukhī + Mātaṅgī + Kamalātmikā + Devi Sati Shiva Dakṣa-Yajña Devi Bhagavata Purana + Mahāvidyā-Rahasyam + Śrī-Vidyā Kula + Aparādhi-Rahasyam Bhāskararāya 18th c.
Dasha Mahavidya

Names connected to Dashamahavidya.

The number behind Dashamahavidya.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Dashamahavidya reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.