As a deity name
Name 596 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
any row or set or series or number, a group, collection, flock, troop, assembly, company (e.g. of persons eating together or belonging to the same caste), &c.
Scripturally attestedWhy this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "paṅktyai" is the dative of "paṅkti" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
Dictionary citations
paṅkti f. (also ˚ktī mc. and in comp.) (fr. pañcan) a row or set or collection of five, the number 5 AV.; Br. &c.
a sort of fivefold metre consisting of 5 Pādas of 8 syllables each, ib.
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