As a deity name
Name 797 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
(; Ved. acc. ām; Ved. loc. and dat. e; voc. as, a, and an, on ) N. of an ancient sage with the patronymic Kāvya, (in later times identified with Śukra, the teacher of the Asuras, w…
Scripturally attestedWhy this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "uśanase" is the dative of "uśanas" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
Dictionary citations
uśanas m. ā (Pāṇ. vii, 1, 94; Ved. acc. ām; Ved. loc. and dat. e; voc. as, a, and an, Kāś. on Pāṇ.) N. of an ancient sage with the patronymic Kāvya, RV.; AV. iv, 29, 6; Kauś. (in later times identified with Śukra, the teacher of the Asuras, who presides over the planet Venus)
N. of the planet Venus, MBh.; Yājñ.; Pañcat. &c.
Caveats
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