As a deity name
Name 290 of the Hanuman Sahasranāma — Rasvin Samhita / Brahmanda Purana, as taught by Lord Ram / Sages
Name 338 of the Hanuman Sahasranāma — Rasvin Samhita / Brahmanda Purana, as taught by Lord Ram / Sages
Name 45 of the Surya Sahasranāma — Bhavishya Purana, as taught by Lord Brahma / Sages
Name 648 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
relating or belonging to the wind or air, given by or sacred to the god of wind &c.
Scripturally attested Verified split — attested membersWhy this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "vāyave" is the locative of "vāyava" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
M1 · same meaning "vāyave" is the dative of "vāyu" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
Related forms
Dictionary citations
vāyava &c. See p. 943, col. 1.
vāyava mf(ī)n. relating or belonging to the wind or air, given by or sacred to the god of wind &c., PārGṛ.; MBh.
1. vāyu m. (fr. √ 2. vā) wind, air (as one of the 5 elements; in MBh. 7 winds are reckoned), RV. &c. &c.
the god of the wind (often associated with Indra in the Ṛg-veda, as Vāta [q.v.] with Parjanya, but although of equal rank with Indra, not occupying so prominent a position; in the Puruṣasūkta he is said to have sprung form the breath of Puruṣa, and elsewhere is described as the son-in-law of Tvaṣṭṛ; be is said to move in a shining car drawn by a pair of red or purple horses or by several teams consisting of ninety-nine or a hundred or even a thousand horses [cf. ni-yut]; he is often made to occupy the same chariot with Indra, and in conjunction with him honoured with the first draught of the Soma libation; he is rarely connected with the Maruts, although in i, 134, 4, he is said to have begotten them from the rivers of heaven; he is regent of the Nakṣatra Svāti and north-west quarter See loka-pāla), ib.
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