As a deity name
Name 565 of the Durga Sahasranāma — Kula Arnava Tantra / Skanda Purana, as taught by Lord Shiva to Goddess Parvati
Name 135 of the Lakshmi Sahasranāma — Skanda Purana / Sanat Kumara Samhita, as taught by Sages Sanatkumara and Devotees
As a Hindi name
दक्षिणा · noun · feminine
दक्षिण दिशा · वह धन जो ब्राह्मणों या पुरोहितों को यज्ञादि कर्म कराने के पीछे दिया जाता है । वह दान जो किसी शुभ कार्य आदि के समय ब्राह्मणों को दिया जाय · पुरस्कार । भेट — Śabdasāgara
दक्षिणा · dakshiṇā · s.f.
The south ( = dakshiṇ, q.v.) — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 520
दक्षिणा · feminine
donation; tribute; an honorarium paid to a guru
Cited formation "दक्षिणा" is दक्षिण + -आ: दक्षिण means "right", and the suffix -आ forms abstract, agent, action or instrumental nouns (masc.); also past participles. CHD Basic Grammar App. I §8(3) — cited from the extracted rule table
Cited formation "दक्षिणा" is दक्षिण + -आ: दक्षिण means "right", and the suffix -आ forms 'having' (adjectives). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §9(1) — cited from the extracted rule table
a Hindi word, a tatsama: the Sanskrit word borrowed unchanged into Hindi दक्षिणा — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Learned borrowing from Sanskrit दक्षिणा (dakṣiṇā).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
dakṣiṇā (ā), f. (scil. go), ‘able to calve and give milk’, a prolific cow, good milch-cow, RV.; AV.
a fee or present to the officiating priest (consisting originally of a cow, cf. KātyŚr. xv; Lāṭy. viii, 1, 2), RV. &c.
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
(scil. go), ‘able to calve and give milk’, a prolific cow, good milch-cow
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M1 · same meaning "dakṣiṇā" is the instrumental of "dakṣi" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
M1 · same meaning "dakṣiṇā" is the feminine form of "dakṣiṇa" — the same word with the feminine ending (nominative).
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Dictionary citations
dakṣiṇā (ā), f. (scil. go), ‘able to calve and give milk’, a prolific cow, good milch-cow, RV.; AV.
a fee or present to the officiating priest (consisting originally of a cow, cf. KātyŚr. xv; Lāṭy. viii, 1, 2), RV. &c.
Donation to the priest (personified along with Brahmaṇas-pati, Indra, and Soma, i, 18, 5; x, 103, 8; authoress of x, 107; RAnukr.; wife of Sacrifice [Ragh. i, 31; BhP. ii, 7, 21], both being children of Ruci and Ākūti, iv, 1, 4 f.; VP. i, 7, 18 f.)
reward, RV. viii, 24, 21
(offered to the Guru), MBh. v; Ragh. v, 20; Kathās. iv, 93 f.
dakṣi m. pl. N. of a family, Pravar. iii, 3.
dakṣiṇa mf(ā)n. (also ˚ṇa, ŚBr.) (declined as a pron. when denoting relative position [‘right’ or ‘southern’] KātyŚr.; ĀśvGṛ. &c.; cf. Pāṇ. i, 1, 34; vii, 1, 16; but not necessarily in abl. and loc. sg. m. n. [˚ṇe, KātyŚr.; Mn. ii, 63] and nom. pl. m.; except, Hariv. 12390) able, clever, dexterous, Pāṇ. i, 1, 34, Kāś.; Śatr. (ifc.)
right (not left), RV.; AV.; VS. &c. (˚ṇaṃ parī, ‘to walk round a person with the right side towards him’, BhP. iv, 12, 25; ˚ṇaṃ√ kṛ, ‘to place any one on the right side as a mark of respect’, i, viii)
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