As a deity name
Name 113 of the Lakshmi Sahasranāma — Skanda Purana / Sanat Kumara Samhita, as taught by Sages Sanatkumara and Devotees
Name 831 of the Lakshmi Sahasranāma — Skanda Purana / Sanat Kumara Samhita, as taught by Sages Sanatkumara and Devotees
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
Śiva's arrangement of the letters, the
Scripturally attestedWhy this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "śāṅkarī" is the nominative of "śāṃkarī" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
M1 · same meaning "śāṅkarī" is the nominative dual of "śāṃkari" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
M1 · same meaning "śāṅkarī" is the feminine form of "śāṃkara" — the same word with the feminine ending, recorded by the dictionary's own gender marker on that entry.
Related forms
Dictionary citations
śāṃkarī (ī), f., see below
śāṃkarī f. Śiva's arrangement of the letters, the Śivasūtra, Cat.
śāṃkari m. patr. of Skanda, Bālar.
of Gaṇeśa, L.
śāṃkara mf(ī)n. (fr. śaṃ-kara) relating or belonging to Śiva, Kathās.
relating to or derived from or composed by Śaṃkarācārya, Sarvad.; Cat.
Caveats
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