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
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
a year of the Vikrama era (see above; varṣa is used for the śaka) the first in a cycle of five or six years
Scripturally attested Verified split — attested membersMultiple readings (2)Why this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "saṃvatsarāya" is the dative of "saṃvatsara" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
Dictionary citations
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.
Alternative readings
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