As a deity name
Name 969 of the Rama Sahasranāma — Padma Purana / Skanda Purana, as taught by Lord Shiva to Goddess Parvati
Name 245 of the Shiva Sahasranāma — Mahabharata (Anushasana Parva), as taught by Sage Tandi to Sage Upamanyu
Name 646 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 creatures, creator, &c. &c. (N. of a supreme god above or among the Vedic deities [ (only ); ] but in later times also applied to Viṣṇu, Śiva, Time personified, the sun, fi…
Scripturally attestedWhy this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "prajāpataye" is the dative of "prajāpati" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
M1 · same meaning "prajāpataye" is the dative of "prajāpatī" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
Related forms
Dictionary citations
prajā—pati (˚jā-), m. ‘lord of creatures’, N. of Savitṛ, Soma, Agni, Indra &c., RV.; AV.
(˚jā-) a divinity presiding over procreation, protector of life, ib.; VS.; Mn.; Suśr.; BhP.
prajā—patī (˚jā-), f. a matron, lady, Divyāv.
N. of Gautama Buddha 's aunt and nurse (with the patr. Gautamī, the first woman who assented to his doctrines), Lalit.
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