As a deity name
Name 103 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
consisting of one syllabic instant
Scripturally attestedWhy this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "ekamātrāyai" is the dative of "ekamātra" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
M3 · meaning shifts "ekamātra" is derived from "eka" with the mātrac suffix — a related word whose meaning shifts, so both meanings are shown.
eka mfn. (√ i, Uṇ. iii, 43, probably fr. a base e; cf. Zd. ae-va; Gk. οἰ-ν-ός, οἶος; Goth. ai-n-s; also Lat. aequu-s; g. sarvādi, Pāṇ. i, 1, 27; see Gr. 200), one (eko'pi, or ekaś-cana, with na preceding or following, no one, nobody; the words ekayā na or ekān na are used before decade numerals to lessen them by one, e.g. ekān na triṃśat, twenty-nine), RV. &c.
(with and without eva) alone, solitary, single, happening only once, that one only (frequently ifc.; cf. dharmaika-rakṣa, &c.), RV. &c.
eka—mātra mfn. consisting of one syllabic instant, APrāt.
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Dictionary citations
eka—mātra mfn. consisting of one syllabic instant, APrāt.
eka mfn. (√ i, Uṇ. iii, 43, probably fr. a base e; cf. Zd. ae-va; Gk. οἰ-ν-ός, οἶος; Goth. ai-n-s; also Lat. aequu-s; g. sarvādi, Pāṇ. i, 1, 27; see Gr. 200), one (eko'pi, or ekaś-cana, with na preceding or following, no one, nobody; the words ekayā na or ekān na are used before decade numerals to lessen them by one, e.g. ekān na triṃśat, twenty-nine), RV. &c.
(with and without eva) alone, solitary, single, happening only once, that one only (frequently ifc.; cf. dharmaika-rakṣa, &c.), RV. &c.
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