As a deity name
Name 745 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
falling (see garta-).
Scripturally attestedWhy this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "patye" is the locative of "patya" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
M1 · same meaning "patye" is the dative of "pati" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
M3 · meaning shifts "patya" is derived from "pat" with the yat suffix — a related word whose meaning shifts, so both meanings are shown.
1. pat cl. 4. Ā. (Dhātup. xxvi, 50) patyate, to be master, reign, rule, govern, control, own, possess, dispose of (acc. or instr.), RV.; to partake of, share in (loc.), ib.; to be fit or serve for (dat.), ib.
pat [Prob. Nom. of pati; cf. Lat. potiri.]
patya n. falling (see garta-).
Related forms
Dictionary citations
patya n. falling (see garta-).
1. pati m. (cf. √ 1. pat; when uncompounded and meaning ‘husband’ instr. patyā; dat. patye; gen. abl. patyur; loc. patyau; but when meaning ‘lord, master’, and ifc. regularly inflected with exceptions; cf. Pāṇ. i, 4, 8; 9) a master, owner, possessor, lord, ruler, sovereign, RV. &c. &c.
a husband, ib. (in comp. either with the stem or with the gen., e.g. duhitṛ-p˚ or ˚tuḥ-p˚, Pāṇ. vi, 3, 24; when mfn. f. = m., e.g. -jīvat-patyā tvayā, R. ii, 24, 8, or patikā, e.g. pramīta-patikā, Mn. ix, 68)
1. pat cl. 4. Ā. (Dhātup. xxvi, 50) patyate, to be master, reign, rule, govern, control, own, possess, dispose of (acc. or instr.), RV.; to partake of, share in (loc.), ib.; to be fit or serve for (dat.), ib.
pat [Prob. Nom. of pati; cf. Lat. potiri.]
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