As a deity name
Name 473 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
the sign of the zodiac Sagittarius
Scripturally attestedWhy this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "dhanurdharāyai" is the dative of "dhanurdhara" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
Dictionary citations
dhanur—dhara m. = -graha, Mn.; MBh.; R. &c. (also as N. of Śiva)
the sign of the zodiac Sagittarius, Var.
Caveats
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