As a deity name
Name 140 of the Durga Sahasranāma — Kula Arnava Tantra / Skanda Purana, as taught by Lord Shiva to Goddess Parvati
Name 701 of the Durga Sahasranāma — Kula Arnava Tantra / Skanda Purana, as taught by Lord Shiva to Goddess Parvati
Name 143 of the Gayatri Sahasranāma — Devi Bhagavata Purana, as taught by Sages
Name 242 of the Lakshmi Sahasranāma — Skanda Purana / Sanat Kumara Samhita, as taught by Sages Sanatkumara and Devotees
As a Hindi name
कौशिकी · noun · masculine
एक सकर राग जो कौशिकी और कान्हडे के योग से बचता है । इसमें सब स्वर कोमल लगते हैं — Śabdasāgara
कौशिकी · kauśikī · s.f.
The river Kosī (in Bihār) — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 862
Cited formation "कौशिकी" is कौशिक + -ई: कौशिक means "(f. -ī), Of the family of Kuśika", and the suffix -ई forms abstract nouns (fem.). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §8(14) — cited from the extracted rule table — base gloss: Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago
Cited formation "कौशिकी" is कौशिक + -ई: कौशिक means "(f. -ī), Of the family of Kuśika", and the suffix -ई forms 'belonging to', 'having', 'coming from' (adjectives). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §9(6) — cited from the extracted rule table — base gloss: Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago
Cited formation "कौशिकी" is कौशिक + -ई: कौशिक means "(f. -ī), Of the family of Kuśika", and the suffix -ई forms diminutives (fem.). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §9(6) — cited from the extracted rule table — base gloss: Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
(in music) N. of a Rāgiṇī
Scripturally attested Verified derivationWhy this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "kauśikī" is the nominative of "kauśikin" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
Dictionary citations
kauśikī f. N. of a goddess sprung from the body of Pārvatī, MārkP. lxxxv, 40; KālP.; DevīP.
kauśikī (ī), f. (in music) N. of a Rāgiṇī
N. of Durgā, Hariv. 3260 and 3270
N. of a Śikṣā
of a river in Bahar (commonly Kosi or Koosa, created by Viśvā-mitra, or identified with Satyavatī, the sister of Viśvā-mitra), MBh.; Hariv.; R. &c.
kauśikin m. pl. the pupils of Kauśika, Pāṇ. iv, 3, 103; iv, 2, 66, Kāś.
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