As a deity name
Name 598 of the Narasimha Sahasranāma — Brahmanda Purana / Narasimha Purana, as taught by Sages to Assembly of Devotees
As a Hindi name
No reading on this path — this spelling has no entry in our Hindi sources, and no near neighbour is attested there either. We say so rather than invent one.
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
whatever has not been or happened.
Scripturally attested Verified split — attested membersMultiple readings (6)Why this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "abhūtāya" is the dative of "abhūta" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
Dictionary citations
a-bhūta mfn. whatever has not been or happened.
abhūta a. Non-existent, what is not or has not been; not true or real, false; Mu. 3. 16, Ki. 14. 19. Comp. — āharaṇaṃ ‘utterance of an unreality,’ a covert expression, a speech founded on fraud, one of the members of garbha S. D. 365. — tadbhāvaḥ the becoming or being changed into, or making, that which it is not before; kṛbhvastiyoṃge saṃpadye kartari cvi P. V. 4. 50; abhūtatadbhāve iti vaktavyaṃ; akṛṣṇaḥ kṛṣṇaḥ saṃpadyate taṃ karoti kṛṣṇīkaroti Sk.; cf. payodharībhūtacatuḥsamudrāṃ R. 2. 3. — pūrva a. unprecedented, unsurpassed; abhūt ˚rvo rājā ciṃtāmaṇirnāma Vās. 1, Ve. 3. 2, Śi. 3. 3. — prādurbhāvaḥ becoming manifest of what has not been before. — śatru a. having no enemy.
Alternative readings
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