As a deity name
Name 713 of the Gayatri Sahasranāma — Devi Bhagavata Purana, as taught by Sages
Name 625 of the Lakshmi Sahasranāma — Skanda Purana / Sanat Kumara Samhita, as taught by Sages Sanatkumara and Devotees
Name 475 of the Saraswati Sahasranāma — Skanda Purana, as taught by Lord Brahma / Sages
As a Hindi name
बृहती · noun · feminine
कटाई । बरहट । बनभंटा · विश्वावसु गधर्व की वीणा का नाम · उत्तरीय वस्त्र । उपरना — Śabdasāgara
बृहती · br̤ihatī · s.f.
Name of a particular metre of thirty-six syllables (divided into four verses of nine syllables each, or of eight syllables in the first, second, and fourth, and twelve in the third) — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 150
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
fr. bṛkat N. of a partic. metre of 36 (orig. 8 + 8 + 12 + 8) syllables or (later) any metre containing 36 syllables (ifc. ˚tīka ), &c.
Scripturally attested Verified derivationMultiple readings (3)Why this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "bṛhatī" is the vocative dual of "bṛhat" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
Dictionary citations
bṛhatī (tī), f. See s.v.
bṛhatī f. fr. bṛkat N. of a partic. metre of 36 (orig. 8 + 8 + 12 + 8) syllables or (later) any metre containing 36 syllables (ifc. ˚tīka mfn.), RV.; RPrāt.; AV.; Br. &c.
a symbolical expression for the number 36 ŚrS.
(pl.) N. of partic. bricks forming part of the sacrificial fire-altar, ŚBr.; Śulbas.
a partic. Solanum (-dvaya n. two species of it), ŚāṅkhGṛ.; Suśr.
bṛhat mf(atī)n. (in later language usually written vṛhat) lofty, high, tall, great, large, wide, vast, abundant, compact, solid, massy, strong, mighty, RV. &c. &c.
full-grown, old, RV.
Alternative readings
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