As a deity name
Name 148 of the Hanuman Sahasranāma — Rasvin Samhita / Brahmanda Purana, as taught by Lord Ram / Sages
Name 907 of the Narasimha Sahasranāma — Brahmanda Purana / Narasimha Purana, as taught by Sages to Assembly of Devotees
Name 217 of the Shiva Sahasranāma — Mahabharata (Anushasana Parva), as taught by Sage Tandi to Sage Upamanyu
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 sea, appear like the ocean
Scripturally attested Verified derivationMultiple readings (7)Why this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "samudrāya" is the dative of "samudra" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
Dictionary citations
samudrāya Nom. Ā. ˚yate, to resemble the sea, appear like the ocean, Mṛcch.
sam-udra m. (n. only, RV. vi, 72, 3; ifc. f(ā). cf. udra, an-udra; for sa-mudra See p. 1168, col. 2) ‘gathering together of waters’, the sea, ocean (in Veda also ‘the aerial waters’, ‘atmospheric ocean or sky’ [cf. Naigh. i, 3]; in VP. ii, 4, seven circular concentric [elsewhere 3 or 4] oceans are named, viz. lavaṇa, ‘salt-water’; ikṣu, ‘syrup’; surā, ‘wine’; ghṛta, ‘clarified butter’; dadhi, ‘curds’; dugdha, ‘milk’; jala, ‘fresh water’; in later language the Ocean is often personified as king of the rivers), RV. &c. &c.
N. of the number, four (four principal oceans being reckoned by some, one for every quarter of the sky), Gaṇit.
Alternative readings
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