As a deity name
Name 418 of the Narasimha Sahasranāma — Brahmanda Purana / Narasimha Purana, as taught by Sages to Assembly of Devotees
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
‘cow-lord’, a bull
Scripturally attestedWhy this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "gavāṃpataye" is the dative of "gavāmpati" — the same word in a different grammatical case. (The spelling "gavāṃpataye" is looked up as "gavāmpataye" — a standard final-sound spelling variant.)
Dictionary citations
gavām—pati m. (gavām pati, TBr. iii) ‘cow-lord’, a bull, MBh. iii, 11737; iv, 588
‘lord of rays’, N. of the sun, iii, 192
Caveats
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