As a deity name
Name 311 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
a knife, Introd.
Scripturally attestedWhy this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "churikāyai" is the dative of "churikā" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
Dictionary citations
churikā f. (fr. kṣur˚) a knife, Kathās. xii, xxv; Vet. Introd. 30/31 iv, 26/27 f.
Beta bengalensis, Bhpr. v, 9, 16.
Caveats
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