Sahasranama position 1012 of the 1,072 names

Shukra Sampat-Shukrakarshana Karini

शुक्र संपत्-शुक्राकर्षण कारिणी

Śukra Saṃpat-Śukrākarṣaṇa Kāriṇī

What Shukra Sampat-Shukrakarshana Karini means

Shukra Sampat-Shukrakarshana Karini is name 1012 in the Adya Mahakali Sahasranama, the 1,072-name devotional text to Maa Kali. She who gathers, enriches, and attracts the potency of Shukra, the creative seed-essence that sustains manifestation.

Also spelled

  • Sukra Sampat-Sukrakarsana Karini
  • ShukraSampat-ShukrakarshanaKarini
  • Source transliteration: SHHUKRA SAMPACH-SHHUKR'AKARSHHANA KARINI

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 gathers, enriches, and attracts the potency of Shukra, the creative seed-essence that sustains manifestation.

Elaboration

Shhukra Sampach-Shhukr'akarshhana Karini is a subtle and esoteric name of Mahakali. It presents her as the one who is filled with Shukra and who also draws Shukra toward herself. In this form, she is not merely associated with creative potency. She is its source, concentration, and power of attraction.

The Meaning of Shukra In Sanskrit, Shukra carries several connected meanings. It can refer to seminal essence, reproductive vitality, brightness, purity, spiritual luminosity, and the planet Venus, which is associated with beauty, love, and creative power. In a deeper philosophical and Tantric sense, Shukra is the subtle potency or seed-essence through which creation, growth, and manifestation unfold.

Enriched With and Drawing the Potency The name presents her as enriched by (Sampach) Shukra and as the one who attracts (Akarshhana) it. Kali does not merely receive or wield this potency. She embodies it in its highest and most concentrated form. Her being is saturated with creative force, and she draws all life-giving energies toward herself, gathering, intensifying, and directing them.

Cosmic Creativity and Sustenance As Shhukra Sampach-Shhukr'akarshhana Karini, Mahakali stands as the hidden creative and sustaining force of the cosmos. Every act of creation, whether biological, artistic, or spiritual, ultimately arises through her Shakti as Shukra. She is the subtle power that lets a seed sprout, a thought take form, and pure consciousness appear as the universe. This name reveals her as the inexhaustible wellspring of life, whose dark womb is the source from which luminous creation continually emerges.

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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