As a deity name
Name 971 of the Gopal Sahasranāma — Sammohana Tantra, as taught by Lord Shiva to Goddess Parvati
Name 615 of the Shiva Sahasranāma — Mahabharata (Anushasana Parva), as taught by Sage Tandi to Sage Upamanyu
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 physician of the gods (produced at the churning of the ocean with a cup of Amṛta in his hands, the supposed author of the Āyur-veda, who in a later existence is also called Div…
Scripturally attestedWhy this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "dhanvantaraye" is the dative of "dhanvantari" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
Dictionary citations
dhanvan-tari m. (for ˚vani-t˚), ‘moving in a curve’, N. of a deity to whom oblations were offered in the north-east quarter, Kauś. 74; Mn. iii, 85; MBh. xiii, 4662 (where ˚tare w.r. for ˚tareḥ)
of the sun, MBh. iii, 155
Caveats
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