As a deity name
Name 120 of the Saraswati Sahasranāma — Skanda 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 partic. deadly weapon (used as a missile, supposed by some to be a sort of fire-arms or rocket, but described by the Comm. on the Mahābhārata as a stone or cylindrical piece of w…
Scripturally attestedWhy this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "śataghnyai" is the dative of "śataghnī" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
M1 · same meaning "śataghnyai" is the dative of "śataghni" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
Related forms
Dictionary citations
śata—ghnī f. (cf. -han, p. 1050) a partic. deadly weapon (used as a missile, supposed by some to be a sort of fire-arms or rocket, but described by the Comm. on the Mahābhārata as a stone or cylindrical piece of wood studded with iron spikes), MBh.; Hariv.; Kāv. &c.
a deadly disease of the throat, Suśr.; ŚārṅgS.
śata—ghni f. m.c. for -ghnī, Hariv.; VarYogay.; BhP.
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