As a deity name
Name 213 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
a herd of kine
Scripturally attestedWhy this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "gotrāyai" is the dative of "gotrā" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
M1 · same meaning "gotrāyai" is the dative of "gotra" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
M3 · meaning shifts "gotrā" is derived from "go" with the trā suffix — a related word whose meaning shifts, so both meanings are shown.
go gaus (acc. gām instr. gavā dat. gave, gen. abl. gos loc. gavi; du. gāvā [Ved.], gāvau; pl. nom. gāvas acc. gās [rarely gāvas, TBr. iii; TUp.; MBh. iv, 1506; R. ii] instr. gobhis dat. abl. gobhyas, gen. gavām [once at the end of a Pāda, RV. iv, 1, 19] and [in RV. at the end of Pādas only, cf. Pāṇ. vii, 1, 57] gonām loc. goṣu) m. an ox f. a cow, (pl.) cattle, kine, herd of cattle, RV. &c. (in comp. before vowels [cf. Pāṇ. vi, 1, 122 ff.] gav, gava, qq.vv.; cf. also gavām, gavi, gāṃ ss.vv.; gavāṃ vrata, N. of a Sāman; gavāṃ tīrtha, see go t˚; goṣu-√ gam, to set out for a battle [to conquer cows] RV. ii, 25, 4; v, 45, 9; viii, 71, 5)
‘anything coming from or belonging to an ox or cow’, milk (generally pl.), flesh (only pl. RV. x, 16, 7; ‘fat’, Gmn.), skin, hide, leather, strap of leather, bow-string, sinew (RV. x, 27, 22; AV. i, 2, 3), RV.
go—trā (ā), f. a herd of kine, Pāṇ. iv, 2, 51
the earth, L. (cf. gotreśa)
Related forms
Dictionary citations
go—trā (ā), f. a herd of kine, Pāṇ. iv, 2, 51
the earth, L. (cf. gotreśa)
go—tra n. (√ trai) protection or shelter for cows, cow-pen, cow-shed, stable for cattle, stable (in general), hurdle, enclosure, RV. (once m., viii, 50, 10)
‘family enclosed by the hurdle’, family, race, lineage, kin, ChUp.; ŚāṅkhŚr.; Kauś. &c. (a polysyllabic fem. in ī shortens this vowel before gotra in comp. [e.g. brāhmaṇigotrā, ‘a Brāhman woman only by descent or name’, Kāś.] Pāṇ. vi, 3, 43 ff.)
go gaus (acc. gām instr. gavā dat. gave, gen. abl. gos loc. gavi; du. gāvā [Ved.], gāvau; pl. nom. gāvas acc. gās [rarely gāvas, TBr. iii; TUp.; MBh. iv, 1506; R. ii] instr. gobhis dat. abl. gobhyas, gen. gavām [once at the end of a Pāda, RV. iv, 1, 19] and [in RV. at the end of Pādas only, cf. Pāṇ. vii, 1, 57] gonām loc. goṣu) m. an ox f. a cow, (pl.) cattle, kine, herd of cattle, RV. &c. (in comp. before vowels [cf. Pāṇ. vi, 1, 122 ff.] gav, gava, qq.vv.; cf. also gavām, gavi, gāṃ ss.vv.; gavāṃ vrata, N. of a Sāman; gavāṃ tīrtha, see go t˚; goṣu-√ gam, to set out for a battle [to conquer cows] RV. ii, 25, 4; v, 45, 9; viii, 71, 5)
‘anything coming from or belonging to an ox or cow’, milk (generally pl.), flesh (only pl. RV. x, 16, 7; ‘fat’, Gmn.), skin, hide, leather, strap of leather, bow-string, sinew (RV. x, 27, 22; AV. i, 2, 3), RV.
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