As a deity name
Name 601 of the Gopal Sahasranāma — Sammohana Tantra, as taught by Lord Shiva to Goddess Parvati
Name 767 of the Gopal Sahasranāma — Sammohana Tantra, as taught by Lord Shiva to Goddess Parvati
Name 704 of the Vishnu Sahasranāma — Mahabharata (Anushasana Parva), as taught by Bhishma to Yudhishthira on his deathbed
As a Hindi name
शूरसेन · noun · masculine
मथुरा के एक प्रसिद्ध राजा जो कृष्ण के पितामह और वसुदेव के पिता थे · मथुरा और उसके आस पास के प्रदेश का प्राचीन नाम जहाँ राजा शूरसेन का राज्य था — Śabdasāgara
शूरसेन · feminine
an ancient region in modern Uttar Pradesh, India, corresponding to modern Braj and surrounding Mathura
Cited formation "शूरसेन" is शूरसेना + -न: शूरसेना means "शूरसेन राजा की पुरी । मथुरा नगरी एक का नाम", and the suffix -न forms abstract nouns (masc. or fem.). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §8(18) — cited from the extracted rule table — base gloss: Śabdasāgara
a Hindi word, a tatsama: the Sanskrit word borrowed unchanged into Hindi शूरसेन — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Learned borrowing from Sanskrit शूरसेन (śūrasena).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
śūra—sena m. N. of the country about Mathurā, Pañcar.
a king of Mathurā (and ruler of the Yadus, applied to Viṣṇu and Ugra-sena), MBh.; Hariv.
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
a king of Mathurā (and ruler of the Yadus, applied to Viṣṇu and Ugra-sena)
Scripturally attested Verified derivationMultiple readings (2)Why this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "śūrasena" is the vocative of "śūrasenā" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
Dictionary citations
śūra—sena m. N. of the country about Mathurā, Pañcar.
a king of Mathurā (and ruler of the Yadus, applied to Viṣṇu and Ugra-sena), MBh.; Hariv.
N. of a son of Kārtavīrya, Hariv.
of a son of Śatru-ghna, VP.
of various other men, Kathās.
śūra—senā (ā), f. N. of the city of Mathurā, R.
Alternative readings
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