As a deity name
Name 200 of the Gayatri Sahasranāma — Devi Bhagavata Purana, as taught by Sages
Name 1001 of the Gayatri Sahasranāma — Devi Bhagavata Purana, as taught by Sages
Name 76 of the Saraswati Sahasranāma — Skanda Purana, as taught by Lord Brahma / Sages
As a Hindi name
गाना · masculine
song
गाना
to sing
a Hindi word, a tadbhava: evolved from the Sanskrit through Prakrit गान — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Inherited from Sanskrit गान (gāna). Cognate with Assamese গান (gan), Bengali গান (gan), Gujarati ગાણું (gāṇũ), Marathi गाणे (gāṇe), Punjabi ਗਾਣਾ (gāṇā). Doublet of गान (gān), a tatsama.” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
gāna n. singing, song, KātyŚr.; Lāṭy. i, vii; Hariv. 11793; Śiś. ix, 54
a sound, L. (cf. araṇya-, ūha-, ūhya-.)
a Hindi word, a tadbhava: evolved from the Sanskrit through Prakrit गायति — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Inherited from Sanskrit गायति (gāyati), from the root गै (gai, “to sing”).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
the Gāyatrī (i.e.; &c.; this is a very sacred verse repeated by every Brāhman at his morning and evening devotions; from being addressed to Savitṛ or the Sun as generator, it is al…
Scripturally attestedWhy this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "gāyatryai" is the dative of "gāyatrī" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
Dictionary citations
gāyatrī (ī), f. an ancient metre of twenty-four syllables (variously arranged, but generally as a triplet of eight syllables each), any hymn composed in the Gāyatrī metre, RV. x, 14, 16 & 130, 4; VS.; AV. &c.
the Gāyatrī (i.e. RV. iii, 62, 10; tat savitur vareṇyam bhargo devasya dhīmahi dhiyo yo naḥ pracodayāt, ŚBr. xiv; ŚāṅkhGṛ.; MBh. &c.; this is a very sacred verse repeated by every Brāhman at his morning and evening devotions; from being addressed to Savitṛ or the Sun as generator, it is also called Sāvitrī; cf. RTL. pp. 19; 342; 361; 403; the Gāyatrī verse is personified as a goddess, the wife of Brahmā and mother of the four Vedas, Hariv. 11666 ff.; it is often mentioned in connection with the Amṛta, both together constituting as it were the essence and type of sacred hymns in general, AV.; the Gāyatrī personified is also considered as the mother of the first three classes in their capacity of twice-born, W.; cf. RTL. pp. 200 f.; some other verse [perhaps, RV. x, 9, 1] is denoted by Gāyatrī, Suśr. vi, 28, 7; with Tāntrikas a number of mystical verses are called Gāyatrīs, and each deity has one in particular)
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