As a deity name
Name 384 of the Gayatri Sahasranāma — Devi Bhagavata Purana, as taught by 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 wire or string of a lute, &c. (˚tri, )
Scripturally attestedWhy this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "tantryai" is the dative of "tantrī" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
M1 · same meaning "tantryai" is the dative of "tantri" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
Related forms
Dictionary citations
tantrī (īs cf. Pāṇ. v, 4, 159, Kāś.; ī, L.) f. = ˚ntī, Gobh. iii, 6, 7 and BhP. iii, 15, 8 (v.l. for ˚ntī; see also vatsatantrī)
the wire or string of a lute, ŚāṅkhŚr. xvii; Lāṭy. iv, 1, 2; Kauś. &c. (˚tri, R. vi, 28, 26)
tantri f. = ˚trī, q.v.
v.l. for ˚ndri.
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