As a deity name
Name 2 of the Saraswati Sahasranāma — Skanda 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
sound, voice, music (pl. a choir of musicians or singers), (the sapta vāṇīs are referred by the Comms. to the seven metres or to the seven notes of the gamut &c.)
Scripturally attestedWhy this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "vāṇyai" is the dative of "vāṇī" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
M1 · same meaning "vāṇyai" is the dative of "vāṇi" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
Related forms
Dictionary citations
vāṇī (ī), f. See below
1. vāṇī f. sound, voice, music (pl. a choir of musicians or singers), RV. (the sapta vāṇīs are referred by the Comms. to the seven metres or to the seven notes of the gamut &c.)
vāṇi f. (only L.; cf. 1. 2. vāṇī) weaving
a weaver's loom
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