Note: the Hindi and Sanskrit paths disagree here — the Sanskrit dictionary reading is negative (“sin”) while the Hindi reading is not. Both are shown below; read them together before choosing.
As a deity name
Name 362 of the Ganesha Sahasranāma — Ganesha Purana (Upasana Khanda), as taught by Sage Vyasa / Lord Ganesha
Name 153 of the Narasimha Sahasranāma — Brahmanda Purana / Narasimha Purana, as taught by Sages to Assembly of Devotees
Name 148 of the Rama Sahasranāma — Padma Purana / Skanda Purana, as taught by Lord Shiva to Goddess Parvati
As a Hindi name
Note: the Hindi and Sanskrit paths disagree here — the Sanskrit dictionary reading is negative (“sin”) while the Hindi reading is not. Both are shown below; read them together before choosing.
अक्षय · adj
जिसका क्षय न हो । अनश्वर । सदा बना रहनेवाला । कभी न चुकनेवाला · कल्पातस्थायी । क्लप के अंत तक रहनेवाला — Śabdasāgara
अक्षय · noun · masculine
परमात्मा · संन्यासी · दरिद्र — Śabdasāgara
अक्षय · akshay · adj.
Undecaying, imperishable; permanent, durable ( = aććhay) — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 66
अक्षय · masculine
a male given name, Akshay, from Sanskrit
अक्षय
exempt from decay, undecaying; eternal; imperishable; inexhaustible
Cited formation "अक्षय" is अ- + क्षय: क्षय means "destruction", and the prefix अ- forms negation, lack. CHD Basic Grammar App. I §3(1) — cited from the extracted rule table
Cited formation "अक्षय" is अ- + क्षय: क्षय means "destruction", and the prefix अ- forms without, lacking. CHD Basic Grammar App. I §4(1) — cited from the extracted rule table
a Hindi word, a tatsama: the Sanskrit word borrowed unchanged into Hindi अक्षय — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Borrowed from Sanskrit अक्षय (akṣaya).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
a-kṣaya mf(ā)n. exempt from decay, undecaying
a-kṣaya m. N. of the twentieth year in the cycle of Jupiter
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
exempt from decay, undecaying
Scripturally attested Verified derivationMultiple readings (3)Why this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "akṣaya" is the vocative of "akṣayā" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
Gender counterpart
The kosha attests this stem in the feminine, the masculine, and the neuter — the same name serves without alteration.
Dictionary citations
a-kṣaya mf(ā)n. exempt from decay, undecaying
a-kṣaya m. N. of the twentieth year in the cycle of Jupiter
N. of a mountain, Hariv.
akṣaya a. [nāsti kṣayo yasya] 1 Undecaying, exempt from decay, imperishable, undying, unfailing, inexhaustible; sadopayogepi gurustvamakṣayonidhiḥ Śi. 1. 28; sa saṃdhāryaḥ prayatnena svargamakṣayamicchatā Ms. 3. 79; yajñanirvṛtimakṣayāṃ 4. 23; gayāyāmakṣayavaṭe pitṝṇāṃ dattamakṣayaṃ Vāyu.; trisādhanā śaktirivārthamakṣayaṃ R. 3. 13. 2 Poor, without house or habitation, such as a hermit or saṃnyāsin (kṣayovāsaḥ tacchūnyaḥ aniketanaḥ saṃnyāsī daridrovā.) — yaḥ 1 The Supreme Spirit paramātman. 2 N. of the 20th year in the cycle of Jupiter. — yā [akṣayaṃ puṇyaṃ yatrāsti-ac] N. of a day which is said to confer undying religious merit; amaiva somavāreṇa ravivāreṇa saptamī . caturthī bhaumavāreṇa akṣayādapi cākṣayā .. Comp. — guṇaḥ, -puruhūtaḥ Śiva (possessing imperishable qualities). — tṛtīyā the festival falling on the third day of the bright half of Vaiśākha (the first day of satyayuga) which is said to secure permanence to all actions (pb) performed on that day (vaiśākhe māsi rājeṃdra śuklapakṣe tṛtīyikā . akṣayā sā tithiḥ proktā kṛttikārohiṇīyutā .. tasyāṃ dānādikaṃ sarvamakṣayaṃ samudāhṛtaṃ). — lokaḥ the heaven.
akṣaya mfn. (-yaḥ-yā-yaṃ) Durable, permanent, imperishable. f. (-yā) The seventh day of a lunar month, which happens on a Sunday or Monday, and the fourth, which falls on a Wednesday. E. a neg. and kṣai to waste or decay, aff. ac.
a-kṣayā f. the seventh day of a lunar month, if it falls on Sunday or Monday
the fourth, if it fall on Wednesday.
Alternative readings
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