As a deity name
Name 590 of the Rama Sahasranāma — Padma Purana / Skanda Purana, as taught by Lord Shiva to Goddess Parvati
Name 409 of the Shiva Sahasranāma — Mahabharata (Anushasana Parva), as taught by Sage Tandi to Sage Upamanyu
Name 867 of the Shiva Sahasranāma — Mahabharata (Anushasana Parva), as taught by Sage Tandi to Sage Upamanyu
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
‘lord of animals’ (or ‘l˚ of a servant named Paśu’ or ‘l˚ of the soul’, ), N. of the later Rudra-Śiva or of a similar deity (often associated in the Veda with Bhava, Śarva, Ugra, R…
Scripturally attestedWhy this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "paśupataye" is the dative of "paśupati" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
Dictionary citations
paśu—pati m. ‘lord of animals’ (or ‘l˚ of a servant named Paśu’ or ‘l˚ of the soul’, RTL. 89), N. of the later Rudra-Śiva or of a similar deity (often associated in the Veda with Bhava, Śarva, Ugra, Rudra, Mahā-deva, Īśāna and others who together with Bhīma are in later times regarded as manifestations of Rudra), AV. &c. &c.
of Agni.; TS.; ŚBr.
Caveats
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