As a deity name
Name 428 of the Vishnu Sahasranāma — Mahabharata (Anushasana Parva), as taught by Bhishma to Yudhishthira on his deathbed
Name 959 of the Vishnu Sahasranāma — Mahabharata (Anushasana Parva), as taught by Bhishma to Yudhishthira on his deathbed
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
right measure, standard, authority, &c. (pramāṇam bhavatī, ‘your ladyship is the authority or must judge’, in this sense also and sg. and pl., e.g. vedāḥ pramāṇāḥ, ‘the Vedas are a…
Scripturally attestedWhy this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "pramāṇam" is the accusative of "pramāṇa" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
Dictionary citations
pramāṇa n. (ifc. f(ā). ) measure, scale, standard
measure of any kind (as size, extent, circumference, length, distance, weight, multitude, quantity, duration), KātyŚr.; KaṭhUp.; Mn. &c. (instr. ‘on an average’, Jyot.)
Caveats
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