As a deity name
Name 150 of the Vishnu Sahasranāma — Mahabharata (Anushasana Parva), as taught by Bhishma to Yudhishthira on his deathbed
As a Hindi name
पुनर्वसु · noun · masculine
सत्ताईस नक्षत्रों में से सातवाँ नक्षत्र । दे॰ 'नक्षत्र' · विष्णु · शिव — Śabdasāgara
Cited formation "पुनर्वसु" is पुनर्- + वसु: वसु means "See وسو vasu", and the prefix पुनर्- forms again, re-. CHD Basic Grammar App. I §3(21) — cited from the extracted rule table — base gloss: Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
‘restoring goods’, N. of the 5th or 7th lunar mansion, &c. &c. (mostly du. cf.; -tva, )
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Dictionary citations
punar—vasu (punar-), m. ‘restoring goods’, N. of the 5th or 7th lunar mansion, RV. &c. &c. (mostly du. cf. Pāṇ. i, 2, 61; -tva n., MaitrS.)
N. of Viṣṇu or Kṛṣṇa, MBh.
of Śiva, L.
of Kātyāyana or Vararuci, L.
of a son of Taittiri (son of Abhijit and father of Āhuka), Hariv.
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