As a deity name
Name 557 of the Surya Sahasranāma — Bhavishya Purana, as taught by Lord Brahma / 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
‘lord of the P˚s’, N. of Yama
Scripturally attestedWhy this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "pitṛpataye" is the dative of "pitṛpati" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
Dictionary citations
pitṛ—pati m. ‘lord of the P˚s’, N. of Yama, MārkP.
pl. the P˚s and the Prajā-patis, BhP.
Caveats
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