As a deity name
Name 487 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 largest of the 3 sacrificial ladles, (with juhū & upabhṛt), &c.
Scripturally attestedWhy this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "dhruvāyai" is the dative of "dhruvā" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
M1 · same meaning "dhruvāyai" is the dative of "dhruva" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
Related forms
Dictionary citations
dhruvā (ā), f. the largest of the 3 sacrificial ladles, AV. xviii, 4, 5, 6 (with juhū & upabhṛt), VS.; ŚBr. &c.
(scil. vṛtti) a partic. mode of life, Baudh.
dhruva mf(ā)n. (prob. fr. √ dhṛ, but cf. √ dhru and dhruv) fixed, firm, immovable, unchangeable, constant, lasting, permanent, eternal, RV. &c. &c. (e.g. the earth, a mountain, a pillar, a vow &c.; with svāṅga n. an inseparable member of the body, Pāṇ. vi, 2, 177; with dhenu f. a cow which stands quiet when milked, AV. xii, 1, 45; with diś f. the point of the heavens directly under the feet [reckoned among the quarters of the sky, cf. 2. diś] AV.; Br.; with smṛti f. a strong or retentive memory, ChUp. vii, 26, 2; cf. also under karaṇa and nakṣatra)
staying with (loc.), RV. ix, 101, 12
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