As a deity name
Name 467 of the Rama Sahasranāma — Padma Purana / Skanda Purana, as taught by Lord Shiva to Goddess Parvati
Name 945 of the Shiva Sahasranāma — Mahabharata (Anushasana Parva), as taught by Sage Tandi to Sage Upamanyu
As a Hindi name
देना
to give, grant, award; to lay (eggs), give birth to; to orate, deliver; to pay
a Hindi word; it is not Sanskrit
“Hindi verb set देना (denā) दिलाना (dilānā) दिलवाना (dilvānā) Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *deh₃-redup. Proto-Indo-European *-ti Proto-Indo-European *dédeh₃ti Proto-Indo-Iranian *dádaHti Sanskrit ददा॑ति (dádāti) ▲ Prakrit 𑀡𑁂𑀇 (ṇei)influ. Prakrit 𑀤𑁂𑀇 (dei) Old Hindi देना (…” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
‘a Ṛṣi among the gods’, N. of Nārada, (cf. ˚varṣi).
Scripturally attestedWhy this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "devarṣaye" is the dative of "devaṛṣi" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
M1 · same meaning "devarṣaye" is the dative of "devarṣi" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
Related forms
Dictionary citations
deva—ṛṣi m. ‘a Ṛṣi among the gods’, N. of Nārada, 16, 1 (cf. ˚varṣi).
deva—rṣi m. (deva + ṛṣi) a Ṛṣi, a saint of the celestial class, as Nārada, Atri &c., MBh. (xiv, 781 sapta saptarṣayaḥ for sapta devarṣ˚), R.; Pur. &c. (cf. brahmarṣi and rājarṣi)
N. of Śiva, MBh. xiii, 1259
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