Sahasranama position 997 of the 1,072 names

Shukra Sevyati Shukrini

शुक्र सेव्यति शुक्रिणी

Śukra Sevyati Śukriṇī

What Shukra Sevyati Shukrini means

Shukra Sevyati Shukrini is name 997 in the Adya Mahakali Sahasranama, the 1,072-name devotional text to Maa Kali. She who is served by Shhukra and who herself is radiant, pure, and full of vital essence.

Also spelled

  • Sukra Sevyati Sukrini
  • ShukraSevyatiShukrini
  • Source transliteration: SHHUKRA SEVYATI SHHUKRINI

Sanskrit names travel into English in several romanizations. This page keeps the common spelling, the IAST form, and the source transliteration together so the same name is discoverable under each spelling readers use.

Meaning and elaboration

Meaning: She who is served by Shhukra and who herself is radiant, pure, and full of vital essence.

Elaboration

Shhukra Sevyati Shhukrini is not among the more commonly explained names in widely circulated Kali Sahasranama traditions, so its meaning is best approached through the layered force of its Sanskrit terms and the symbolism they carry in Shakta and Tantric understanding.

Shhukra can refer to vital essence, radiance, purity, Venus, or a luminous generative principle. Sevyati carries the sense of being served, worshipped, attended, or approached with devotion. Shhukrini, in feminine form, suggests she who is radiant, pure, filled with vital essence, or identified with the Shhukra principle itself.

Taken together, the name presents Mahakali as the supreme reality before whom even Shhukra stands in service. If Shhukra is read as vital essence, then she is the source of potency, fertility, and life-force itself. If it is read as radiance or purity, then she is that brilliance in its highest and most unconditioned form. If it points to Venus or to Shukra as a celestial intelligence, then even that luminous power is subordinate to her.

This is why the name can hold several meanings at once without strain. It praises her as the origin of life-force, the power behind purity and brilliance, and the sovereign Goddess worshipped even by cosmic principles. In every reading, the emphasis remains the same: Mahakali is not merely linked with Shhukra. She is its source, its fullness, and the One it ultimately serves.

Text and sources

The name list follows the Adya Mahakali Sahasranama as compiled for this project. The English meaning and elaboration are interpretive notes for devotional study, not a translation of a single critical edition.

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