As a deity name
Name 341 of the Hanuman Sahasranāma — Rasvin Samhita / Brahmanda Purana, as taught by Lord Ram / Sages
Name 233 of the Vishnu Sahasranāma — Mahabharata (Anushasana Parva), as taught by Bhishma to Yudhishthira on his deathbed
As a Hindi name
वह्नि · noun · masculine
अग्नि · कृष्ण के एक पुत्र का नाम, जो मित्रविंदा से उत्पन्न हुआ था · तुवंसु के पुत्र का नाम — Śabdasāgara
वह्नि · masculine
fire
a Hindi word, a tatsama: the Sanskrit word borrowed unchanged into Hindi वह्नि — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Learned borrowing from Sanskrit वह्नि (vahni).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
vahni m. any animal that draws or bears along, a draught animal, horse, team, RV.; AV.; VS.; TBr.
any one who conveys or is borne along (applied to a charioteer or rider, or to various gods, esp. to Agni, Indra, Savitṛ, the Maruts &c.), RV.; AV.
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
any one who conveys or is borne along (applied to a charioteer or rider, or to various gods, esp. to Agni, Indra, Savitṛ, the Maruts &c.)
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Dictionary citations
vahni m. any animal that draws or bears along, a draught animal, horse, team, RV.; AV.; VS.; TBr.
any one who conveys or is borne along (applied to a charioteer or rider, or to various gods, esp. to Agni, Indra, Savitṛ, the Maruts &c.), RV.; AV.
N. of Soma (as ‘the flowing or streaming one’), RV. ix, 9, 6 &c.
the conveyer or bearer of oblations to the gods (esp. said of Agni, ‘fire’, or of the three sacrificial fires, see agni), RV.
partic. fire, Gṛhyās.
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