As a deity name
Name 928 of the Gayatri Sahasranāma — Devi Bhagavata Purana, as taught by Sages
Name 10 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
The three kinds of (pb) myrobalan. 2 A kind of perfume. 3 Turmeric. 4 N. of Pārvatī.
Scripturally attestedWhy this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "varāyai" is the dative of "varā" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
M1 · same meaning "varāyai" is the dative of "variman" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
M1 · same meaning "varāyai" is the dative of "vara" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
M1 · same meaning "varāyai" is the dative of "varīman" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
Related forms
Dictionary citations
varā (ā), f. N. of various plants and vegetable products (accord. to L. ‘the three kinds of myrobalan’; Clypea Hernandifolia; Asparagus Racemosus; Cocculus Cordifolius; turmeric; Embelia Ribes; a root similar to ginger; = brāhrnī and reṇukā), Suśr.
N. of Pārvatī, L.
1. variman or variman, m. (abstract noun of uru, q.v.) expanse, ŚāṅkhŚr.
2. variman m. the most excellent, best, BhP. (lit. ‘excellence, superiority, worth’).
1. vara m. (fr. √ 1. vṛ), ‘environing’, ‘enclosing’, circumference, space, room, RV.; AV.; TS. (vara ā pṛthivyāḥ, on the wide earth)
stopping, checking, RV. i, 143, 5.
1. varīman n. = 1. variman, expanse, width, breadth, room, RV.
2. varīman m. = 2. variman, BhP.
Caveats
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