As a deity name
Name 101 of the Vishnu Sahasranāma — Mahabharata (Anushasana Parva), as taught by Bhishma to Yudhishthira on his deathbed
As a Hindi name
वृषाकपि · noun · masculine
शिव · विष्णु · अग्नि — Śabdasāgara
वृषाकपि · vr̤ishākapi · s.m.
An epithet of the sun — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 1188
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
‘man-ape’, N. of a semi-divine being standing in a partic. relation to Indra and Indrāṇī, (by the Comm. identified with the Sun; also supposed to be the son of Indra and the author…
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Dictionary citations
vṛṣā—kapi (vṛṣā-), m. ‘man-ape’, N. of a semi-divine being standing in a partic. relation to Indra and Indrāṇī, RV. x, 86 (by the Comm. identified with the Sun; also supposed to be the son of Indra and the author of the above hymn; cf. RTL. 222 n. 1)
the sun, MBh.
fire, Hariv.
N. of Śiva, MBh.; Kathās.
of Indra, BhP.
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