As a deity name
Name 402 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
a metre of 4 × 6 (¯ ¯ ˘ ˘ ¯ ¯) syllables.
Scripturally attestedWhy this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "tanumadhyāyai" is the dative of "tanumadhyā" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
M1 · same meaning "tanumadhyāyai" is the dative of "tanumadhya" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
Related forms
Dictionary citations
tanu—madhyā f. a metre of 4 × 6 (¯ ¯ ˘ ˘ ¯ ¯) syllables.
tanumadhyā f. (-dhyā) 1 A woman with a slender or elegant waist. 2 A species of the Gāyatrī metre. E. tanu, and madhya middle.
tanu—madhya n. ‘body-middle’, the waist, ib.
tanu—madhya mf(ā)n. = ˚dhyama, Nal. iii, 13
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