As a deity name
Name 808 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
‘gr˚ destroying goddess’, a form of Durgā and a spell called from her
Scripturally attestedWhy this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "mahāmāryai" is the dative of "mahāmārī" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
Dictionary citations
mahā—mārī f. ‘gr˚ destroying goddess’, a form of Durgā and a spell called from her, Pur.
a pestilence causing great mortality, the cholera, MW. (cf. mārī).
Caveats
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