As a deity name
Name 623 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
‘creator of living beings’, the heavenly builder, N. of a god (called su-kṛt, -pāṇi, -gabhasti, -janiman, sv-apas, apasām apastama, viśva-rūpa &c., maker of divine implements, esp.…
Scripturally attestedWhy this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "tvaṣṭre" is the dative of "tvaṣṭṛ" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
Dictionary citations
tvaṣṭṛ m. a carpenter, maker of carriages (= taṣṭṛ), AV. xii, 3, 33
‘creator of living beings’, the heavenly builder, N. of a god (called su-kṛt, -pāṇi, -gabhasti, -janiman, sv-apas, apasām apastama, viśva-rūpa &c., RV.; maker of divine implements, esp. of Indra's thunderbolt and teacher of the Ṛbhus, i, iv-vi, x; Hariv. 12146 f.; R. ii, 91, 12; former of the bodies of men and animals, hence called ‘firstborn’ and invoked for the sake of offspring, esp. in the Āprī hymns, RV.; AV. &c., MBh. iv, 1178; Hariv. 587 ff.; Ragh. vi, 32; associated with the similar deities Dhātṛ, Savitṛ, Prajā-pati, Pūṣan, and surrounded by divine females [gnās, janayas, devānām patnīs; cf. tvaṣṭā-varūtrī] recipients of his generative energy, RV.; ŚBr. i; KātyŚr. iii; supposed author of RV. x, 184 with the epithet Garbha-pati, RAnukr.; father of Saraṇyū [Su-reṇu, Hariv.; Sva-reṇu, L.] whose double twin-children by Vivasvat [or Vāyu ? RV. viii, 26, 21 f.] are Yama-Yamī and the Aśvins, x, 17, 1 f.; Nir. xii, 10; Bṛh.; Hariv. 545 ff.; VP.; also father of Tri-śiras or Viśvarūpa, ib.; overpowered by Indra who recovers the Soma [RV. iii f.] concealed by him because Indra had killed his son Viśva-rūpa, TS. ii; ŚBr. i, v, xii; regent of the Nakṣatra Citrā, TBr.; ŚāṅkhGṛ.; Śāntik.; VarBṛS. iic, 4; of the 5th cycle of Jupiter, viii, 23; of an eclipse, iii, 6; tvaṣṭur ātithya N. of a Sāman, ĀrṣBr.)
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