As a deity name
Name 432 of the Rama Sahasranāma — Padma Purana / Skanda Purana, as taught by Lord Shiva to Goddess Parvati
Name 906 of the Shiva Sahasranāma — Mahabharata (Anushasana Parva), as taught by Sage Tandi to Sage Upamanyu
Name 91 of the Vishnu Sahasranāma — Mahabharata (Anushasana Parva), as taught by Bhishma to Yudhishthira on his deathbed
Name 422 of the Vishnu Sahasranāma — Mahabharata (Anushasana Parva), as taught by Bhishma to Yudhishthira on his deathbed
As a Hindi name
संवत्सर · noun · masculine
वर्ष । साल · पाँच पाँच वर्ष के युगों का प्रथम वर्ष · शिव का एक नाम — Śabdasāgara
संवत्सर · masculine
a year; a year of the Vikrama era, the first in a cycle of five or six years
a Hindi word, a tatsama: the Sanskrit word borrowed unchanged into Hindi संवत्सर — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Learned borrowing from Sanskrit संवत्सर (saṃvatsará); equivalent to सम्- (sam-) + वत्सर (vatsar).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
saṃ-vatsara m. (rarely n.; cf. pari-v˚) a full year, a year (having 12 [TS.] or 13 [VS.] months or 360 days [ŚBr.; AitBr.; Suśr.]; am, ‘for a year’; eṇa ‘after or in course of a y˚’; e or asya, ‘after or within a y˚’), RV. &c. &c.
a year of the Vikrama era (see above; varṣa is used for the śaka) the first in a cycle of five or six years, TS.; PārGṛ.; VarBṛS.; BhP.
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
a year of the Vikrama era (see above; varṣa is used for the śaka) the first in a cycle of five or six years
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saṃ-vatsara m. (rarely n.; cf. pari-v˚) a full year, a year (having 12 [TS.] or 13 [VS.] months or 360 days [ŚBr.; AitBr.; Suśr.]; am, ‘for a year’; eṇa ‘after or in course of a y˚’; e or asya, ‘after or within a y˚’), RV. &c. &c.
a year of the Vikrama era (see above; varṣa is used for the śaka) the first in a cycle of five or six years, TS.; PārGṛ.; VarBṛS.; BhP.
the Year personified (having the new and full moon for eyes and presiding over the seasons), TS.; Pur.
N. of Śiva, MBh.
saṃvatsara m. (-raḥ) A year. E. sam with, completely, and vatsara a year; or sam with vasa to abide, sara Uṇādi aff., and ta substituted for the final.
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