As a deity name
Name 778 of the Shiva Sahasranāma — Mahabharata (Anushasana Parva), as taught by Sage Tandi to Sage Upamanyu
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
‘austerity-treasury’, an eminently pious man, (v.l.)
Scripturally attestedWhy this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "taponidhaye" is the dative of "taponidhi" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
Dictionary citations
tapo—nidhi m. ‘austerity-treasury’, an eminently pious man, Ragh. i, 56; Śak. (v.l.)
[˚pasāṃ n˚, R. (G) i, 67, 3].
Caveats
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