As a deity name
Name 244 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
Nom. Ā. ˚yate, to resemble the ocean
Scripturally attested Verified derivationMultiple readings (4)Why this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "sāgarāya" is the dative of "sāgara" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
Dictionary citations
sāgarāya Nom. Ā. ˚yate, to resemble the ocean, Kāv.
sāgara m. (ifc. f(ā). ; fr. 2. sa-gara) the ocean (said to have been named so by Bhagīratha after his son Sagara [see 2. sa-gara, p. 1125]; another legend asserts that the bed of the ocean was dug by the sons of Sagara; 3 or 4 or 7 oceans are reckoned, cf. 1. sam-udra; sāgarasya phenaḥ = samudraph˚), Mn.; MBh. &c.
an ocean (as expressing any vast body or inexhaustible mass; often ifc. cf. guṇa-śoka-, saṃsāra-s˚)
Alternative readings
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