As a deity name
Name 971 of the Rama Sahasranāma — Padma Purana / Skanda Purana, as taught by Lord Shiva to Goddess Parvati
Name 629 of the Shiva Sahasranāma — Mahabharata (Anushasana Parva), as taught by Sage Tandi to Sage Upamanyu
Name 140 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
a cause of generation, instrument of production
Scripturally attestedWhy this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "savitre" is the locative of "savitra" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
M1 · same meaning "savitre" is the dative of "savitṛ" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
Related forms
Dictionary citations
savitra n. (prob.) a cause of generation, instrument of production, Pāṇ. iii, 2, 184.
savitra n. (-traṃ) Cause or instrument of production or generation. E. ṣū to bear, aff. itra.
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.
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