As a deity name
Name 870 of the Gopal Sahasranāma — Sammohana Tantra, as taught by Lord Shiva to Goddess Parvati
Name 741 of the Rama Sahasranāma — Padma Purana / Skanda Purana, as taught by Lord Shiva to Goddess Parvati
Name 64 of the Shiva Sahasranāma — Mahabharata (Anushasana Parva), as taught by Sage Tandi to Sage Upamanyu
Name 649 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
the sun or its deity (in the Veda the name Sūrya is generally distinguished from Savitṛ [q.v.], and denotes the most concrete of the solar gods, whose connection with the luminary…
Scripturally attested Verified split — attested membersMultiple readings (8)Why this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "sūryāya" is the dative of "sūrya" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
M3 · meaning shifts "sūrya" is derived from "sūr" with the yat suffix — a related word whose meaning shifts, so both meanings are shown.
śūr (also written sūr) cl. 4. Ā. (Dhātup. xxvi, 48) śūryate, to hurt, injure, kill (only in pf. śuśūre, ‘he cut off [the head]’, Śiś. xix, 108); to be or make firm, Dhātup.; ib.; cl. 10. Ā. to be powerful or valiant (in this sense rather Nom. fr. next), Dhātup. xxxv, 48.
1. sūr &c. See √ śūr, p. 1086, col. 1.
sūrya m. the sun or its deity (in the Veda the name Sūrya is generally distinguished from Savitṛ [q.v.], and denotes the most concrete of the solar gods, whose connection with the luminary is always present to the poet's mind ; in Nir. vii, 5 he is regarded as one of the original Vedic triad, his place being in the sky, while that of Agni is on the earth, and that of Indra is in the atmosphere; ten hymns in the RV. are entirely in praise of Sūrya, e.g. i, 50, i, 115 &c., also, AV. xiii, 2; he moves through the sky in a chariot drawn by seven ruddy horses or mares [see saptāśva, harit, harid-aśva]; in the later mythology Sūrya is identified with Savitṛ as one of the 12 Ādityas or emblems of the Sun in the 12 months of the year, and his seven-horsed chariot is said to be driven by Aruṇa or the Dawn as its charioteer, who is represented without legs; the Sun, whether named Sūrya or Vivasvat, has several wives See sūryā below), RV. &c. &c. (cf. IW. 11; 16 &c.; RTL. 341)
a symbolical expression for the number ‘twelve’ (in allusion to the sun in the 12 signs of the zodiac), Jyot.; Hcat.
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sūrya m. the sun or its deity (in the Veda the name Sūrya is generally distinguished from Savitṛ [q.v.], and denotes the most concrete of the solar gods, whose connection with the luminary is always present to the poet's mind ; in Nir. vii, 5 he is regarded as one of the original Vedic triad, his place being in the sky, while that of Agni is on the earth, and that of Indra is in the atmosphere; ten hymns in the RV. are entirely in praise of Sūrya, e.g. i, 50, i, 115 &c., also, AV. xiii, 2; he moves through the sky in a chariot drawn by seven ruddy horses or mares [see saptāśva, harit, harid-aśva]; in the later mythology Sūrya is identified with Savitṛ as one of the 12 Ādityas or emblems of the Sun in the 12 months of the year, and his seven-horsed chariot is said to be driven by Aruṇa or the Dawn as its charioteer, who is represented without legs; the Sun, whether named Sūrya or Vivasvat, has several wives See sūryā below), RV. &c. &c. (cf. IW. 11; 16 &c.; RTL. 341)
a symbolical expression for the number ‘twelve’ (in allusion to the sun in the 12 signs of the zodiac), Jyot.; Hcat.
śūr (also written sūr) cl. 4. Ā. (Dhātup. xxvi, 48) śūryate, to hurt, injure, kill (only in pf. śuśūre, ‘he cut off [the head]’, Śiś. xix, 108); to be or make firm, Dhātup.; ib.; cl. 10. Ā. to be powerful or valiant (in this sense rather Nom. fr. next), Dhātup. xxxv, 48.
1. sūr &c. See √ śūr, p. 1086, col. 1.
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