As a deity name
Name 301 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
σκιά, shade, shadow, a shady place (‘a covered place, house’, ), &c.
Scripturally attestedWhy this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "chāyāyai" is the dative of "chāyā" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
M1 · same meaning "chāyāyai" is the dative of "chāya" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
Related forms
Dictionary citations
chāyā f. σκιά, shade, shadow, a shady place (‘a covered place, house’, Naigh. iii, 4), RV. i, 73, 8; ii, 33, 6; vi, 16, 38; AV.; VS. v, xv; AitBr. vii, 12; ŚBr. &c.
the shadow of a gnomon, Sūryas.
chāya m. granting shade (Śiva), MBh. xii, 10374
chāya n. (Pāṇ. ii, 4, 22 and 25; vi, 2, 14) ifc. (especially after a word to be taken in the gen.) shadow, Mn. iii, 274; Ragh. iv, 20; vii, 4; xii, 50
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