As a deity name
Name 67 of the Saraswati Sahasranāma — Skanda Purana, as taught by Lord Brahma / Sages
Name 89 of the Saraswati Sahasranāma — Skanda Purana, as taught by Lord Brahma / 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
to be preserved or protected
Scripturally attestedWhy this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "gopyāyai" is the dative of "gopya" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
Dictionary citations
gopya mfn. (Pāṇ. iii, 1, 114, Kāś.) to be preserved or protected, MBh. xii, 1481
to be kept or taken care of (a pledge, ādhi), Yājñ. ii, 59
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