Dakshinamurthi
Dakshinamurthi means Lord Shiva facing south, teacher.
| Gender | boy |
| Origin | Tamil |
| Language | Tamil |
| Starts with | D |
Names with a similar meaning
Names that share a word with “Lord Shiva facing south, teacher”. Meanings are the common reading rather than a ruling — the same name is often glossed differently by different sources.
- Benjamin — From Biblical Hebrew, literally 'son of the right hand' (or 'son of the south')
- Murukan — Murugan, young warrior god, South Kerala form
- Gurkiran — Guru's ray, beam of the teacher
- Gurudev — Divine Guru, teacher who is a god
- Satgur — True Guru, the genuine teacher
- Gurjas — Fame of the Guru, glory of the teacher
More boys' names of Tamil origin
Where this comes from
Dakshinamurthi has no entry in the classical Sanskrit dictionary we check against, which is common for modern and non-Sanskrit names. Its meaning comes from our compiled name corpus, the least-sourced dataset on this site — we say so plainly on Sources & methodology rather than implying an authority we cannot name.