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
Grammatical form

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

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.