As a deity name
Name 297 of the Gayatri Sahasranāma — Devi Bhagavata Purana, as taught by Sages
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
the bird Cucculus melanoleucus (said to subsist on rain-drops), &c.
Scripturally attestedWhy this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "cātakāyai" is the dative of "cātaka" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
Dictionary citations
cātaka m. the bird Cucculus melanoleucus (said to subsist on rain-drops), Śak. vii, 7; Ragh. xvii, 15; Megh. &c.
cātaka m. (-kaḥ) A bird, a kind of cuckoo, (Cuculus melano-leucus.) E. cata to beg, affix ṇvul; begging water from the clouds, the supposed sole source of the fluid which this bird drinks.
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