As a deity name
Name 61 of the Ganesha Sahasranāma — Ganesha Purana (Upasana Khanda), as taught by Sage Vyasa / Lord Ganesha
Name 817 of the Surya Sahasranāma — Bhavishya Purana, as taught by Lord Brahma / Sages
Name 775 of the Vishnu Sahasranāma — Mahabharata (Anushasana Parva), as taught by Bhishma to Yudhishthira on his deathbed
As a Hindi name
दुर्जय · adj
जिसे जीतना कठिन हो । जो जल्दी जीता न जा सके — Śabdasāgara
दुर्जय
. विष्णु · कूर्मपुराण के अनुसार कार्तवीर्य वंश में उत्पन्न अनंत राजा का एक पुत्र · एक राक्षस का नाम — Śabdasāgara
Cited formation "दुर्जय" is दुर्- + जय: जय means "victory, triumph", and the prefix दुर्- forms evil, difficult. CHD Basic Grammar App. I §3(11) — cited from the extracted rule table
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
d˚ to be conquered or won, invincible, irresistible, &c.
Scripturally attested Verified derivationMultiple readings (3)Why this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "durjaya" is the vocative of "durjayā" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
Gender counterpart
The kosha attests this stem in the feminine, the masculine, and the neuter — the same name serves without alteration.
Dictionary citations
dur—jaya mfn. d˚ to be conquered or won, invincible, irresistible, Mn.; MBh. &c.
dur—jaya m. N. of a Dānava, MBh.
of an assemblage of D˚, Śak. vi, 28/29
of a Rakṣas, R.
of sev. heroes, MBh.; Pur.
dur—jayā f. N. of a place, MBh. iii, 8540.
Alternative readings
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