As a deity name
Name 884 of the Vishnu Sahasranāma — Mahabharata (Anushasana Parva), as taught by Bhishma to Yudhishthira on his deathbed
Name 969 of the Vishnu Sahasranāma — Mahabharata (Anushasana Parva), as taught by Bhishma to Yudhishthira on his deathbed
As a Hindi name
सविता · noun · masculine
सूर्य । दिवाकर · बारह की संख्या · आक । अर्क । मदार — Śabdasāgara
सविता · adj
जनक । उत्पादक । स्त्रष्या — Śabdasāgara
सविता · savitā · s.m.
The sun. (This is the name by which the deity is invoked in the Gāyatrī) — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 693
सविता · feminine
a female given name, Savita
सविता · masculine
the sun
Cited formation "सविता" is स- + विता: विता means "उतने", and the prefix स- forms with, together with, same. CHD Basic Grammar App. I §3(23) — cited from the extracted rule table — base gloss: Śabdasāgara
a Hindi word, a tatsama: the Sanskrit word borrowed unchanged into Hindi सविता — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Learned borrowing from Sanskrit सविता (savitā).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
the orb of the sun (in its ordinary form) or its god (his wife is Pṛśni), &c.
Scripturally attested Verified split — attested members (member vitA unglossed)Multiple readings (2)Why this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "savitā" is the nominative of "savitṛ" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
Dictionary citations
savitṛ m. a stimulator, rouser, vivifier (applied to Tvaṣṭṛ), RV. iii, 55, 19; x, 10, 5
N. of a sun-deity (accord. to Naigh. belonging to the atmosphere as well as to heaven; and sometimes in the Veda identified with, at other times distinguished from Sūrya, ‘the Sun’, being conceived of and personified as the divine influence and vivifying power of the sun, while Sūrya is the more concrete conception; accord. to Sāy. the sun before rising is called Savitṛ, and after rising till its setting Sūrya; eleven whole hymns of the RV. and parts of others [e.g. i, 35; ii, 38; iii, 62, 10-12 &c.] are devoted to the praise of Savitṛ; he has golden hands, arms, hair &c.; he is also reckoned among the Ādityas [q.v.], and is even worshipped as ‘of all creatures’, supporting the world and delivering his votaries from sin; the celebrated verse, RV. iii, 62, 10, called gāyatrī and sāvitrī [qq.vv.] is addressed to him), RV. &c. &c.
Alternative readings
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