As a deity name
Name 811 of the Ganesha Sahasranāma — Ganesha Purana (Upasana Khanda), as taught by Sage Vyasa / Lord Ganesha
Name 317 of the Hanuman Sahasranāma — Rasvin Samhita / Brahmanda Purana, as taught by Lord Ram / Sages
Name 734 of the Lakshmi Sahasranāma — Skanda Purana / Sanat Kumara Samhita, as taught by Sages Sanatkumara and Devotees
Name 204 of the Saraswati Sahasranāma — Skanda Purana, as taught by Lord Brahma / Sages
As a Hindi name
स्वाहा · ind
एक शब्द या मंत्र जिसका प्रयोग देवताओं को हवि देने के समय किया जाता है । जैसे,—इंद्राय स्वाहा — Śabdasāgara
स्वाहा · noun · feminine
अग्नि की पत्नी का नाम · सभी देवताओं को बिना किसी विचार के दी जानेवाली आहुति (को॰) — Śabdasāgara
स्वाहा · svāhā · s.f.
An exclamation used on making an offering to a deity — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 692
स्वाहा
said after giving an आहुति (āhuti) during a यज्ञ (yajña)
a Hindi word, a tatsama: the Sanskrit word borrowed unchanged into Hindi स्वाहा — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Learned borrowing from Sanskrit स्वाहा (svāhā).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
sv-āhā ind. (prob. fr. 5. su and √ ah; cf. dur-āhā) hail! hail to! may a blessing rest on! (with dat.; an exclamation used in making oblations to the gods; with √ kṛ [ind.p. -kāram, or -kṛtya] and acc. ‘to pronounce the exclamation Svāhā over’), RV. &c. &c.
sv-āhā f. an oblation (offered to Agni, Indra &c.) or Oblation personified (as a daughter of Dakṣa and wife of Agni; she is thought to preside over burnt-offerings; her body is said to consist of the four Vedas, and her limbs are the six Aṅgas or members of the Veda; she is represented also as a wife of the Rudra Paśu-pati), RV.; &c.
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
hail! hail to! may a blessing rest on! (with dat.; an exclamation used in making oblations to the gods; with √ kṛ [ind.p. -kāram, or -kṛtya] and acc. ‘to pronounce the exclamation…
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Dictionary citations
sv-āhā ind. (prob. fr. 5. su and √ ah; cf. dur-āhā) hail! hail to! may a blessing rest on! (with dat.; an exclamation used in making oblations to the gods; with √ kṛ [ind.p. -kāram, or -kṛtya] and acc. ‘to pronounce the exclamation Svāhā over’), RV. &c. &c.
sv-āhā f. an oblation (offered to Agni, Indra &c.) or Oblation personified (as a daughter of Dakṣa and wife of Agni; she is thought to preside over burnt-offerings; her body is said to consist of the four Vedas, and her limbs are the six Aṅgas or members of the Veda; she is represented also as a wife of the Rudra Paśu-pati), RV.; &c.
svāhā 1 An oblation or offering made to all gods indiscriminately. 2 N. of the wife of Agni. — ind. An exclamation used in offering oblations to the gods (with dat.); iṃdrāya svāhā; agnaye svāhā &c. Comp. — kāraḥ utterance of the exclamation Svāhā; svāhāsvadhākāravivarjitāni śmaśānatulyāni gṛhāṇi tāni. — patiḥ, -priyaḥ Agni or fire. — bhuj m. a god, deity.
svāhā ind. An exclamation used in making an oblation to the gods. f. (-hā) 1 A personification of the preceding, as the wife of fire, and goddess presiding over burnt offerings. 2 A female divinity, peculiar to the Bauddhas. E. su well, auspiciously, āṅ before hveñ to call, to invoke, (the gods,) and ḍā aff., or svāda to taste, aff. ā, and da changed to ha.
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