As a deity name
Name 5 of the Narasimha Sahasranāma — Brahmanda Purana / Narasimha Purana, as taught by Sages to Assembly of Devotees
Name 378 of the Narasimha Sahasranāma — Brahmanda Purana / Narasimha Purana, as taught by Sages to Assembly of Devotees
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
Nom. Ā. ˚yate, to become a thunderbolt
Scripturally attested Verified derivationMultiple readings (7)Why this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "vajrāya" is the dative of "vajra" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
Dictionary citations
vajrāya Nom. Ā. ˚yate, to become a thunderbolt, MBh.; Vcar.
vajra m. n. ‘the hard or mighty one’, a thunderbolt (esp. that of Indra, said to have been formed out of the bones of the Ṛṣi Dadhīca or Dadhīci [q.v.], and shaped like a circular discus, or in later times regarded as having the form of two transverse bolts crossing each other thus x; sometimes also applied to similar weapons used by various gods or superhuman beings, or to any mythical weapon destructive of spells or charms, also to manyu, ‘wrath’, RV. or [with apām] to a jet of water, AV. &c. &c.; also applied to a thunderbolt in general or to the lightning evolved from the centrifugal energy of the circular th˚ of Indra when launched at a foe; in Northern Buddhist countries it is shaped like a dumb-bell and called Dorje; see MWB. 201; 322 &c.), RV. &c. &c.
a diamond (thought to be as hard as the th˚ or of the same substance with it), ṢaḍvBr.; Mn.; MBh. &c.
Alternative readings
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