As a deity name
Name 463 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
carrying a stick, &c.
Scripturally attestedWhy this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "daṇḍinyai" is the dative of "daṇḍin" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
Dictionary citations
daṇḍin mfn. (Pāṇ. v, 2, 115, Kāś.) carrying a stick, ŚBr. xiii; KātyŚr.; ŚāṅkhŚr.; Mn. &c.
daṇḍin m. a Brāhman in the 4th stage of his life (= ṭri-), Kālid.
Caveats
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