As a deity name
Name 783 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
he she it, that, this (often correlative of ya generally standing in the preceding clause, e.g., ‘of whom there is intellect he is strong’; sometimes, for the sake of emphasis, con…
Scripturally attestedWhy this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "tasmai" is the dative of "tad" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
Dictionary citations
tad (nom. and acc. sg. n. of and base in comp. for 2. ta from which latter all the cases of this pron. are formed except nom. sg. m. sas or sa & f. sā; instr. pl. tais, AV. &c.; Ved. tebhis, RV.; AV. &c.) m. he f. she n. it, that, this (often correlative of ya generally standing in the preceding clause, e.g. yasya buddhiḥ sa balavān, ‘of whom there is intellect he is strong’; sometimes, for the sake of emphasis, connected with the 1st and 2nd personal pronouns, with other demonstratives and with relatives, e.g. so 'ham, ‘I that very person, I myself’ [tasya = mama, Nal. xv, 10]; tāv imau, ‘those very two’; tad etad ākhyānam, ‘that very tale’, AitBr. vii, 18; yat tat kāraṇam, ‘that very reason which’, Mn. i, 11; yā sā śrī, ‘that very fortune which’, MBh. vii, 427), RV. &c.
tad (tad) n. this world (cf. idam), R. vi, 102, 25
Caveats
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