As a deity name
Name 915 of the Saraswati Sahasranāma — Skanda Purana, as taught by Lord Brahma / Sages
Name 960 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
night, (cf. under yāmya, p. 851, col. 3).
Scripturally attestedWhy this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "yāmyāyai" is the dative of "yāmyā" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
M1 · same meaning "yāmyāyai" is the dative of "yāmya" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
Related forms
Dictionary citations
yāmyā f. night, L. (cf. under yāmya, p. 851, col. 3).
yāmyā (ā), f. (cf. yāmyā on p. 850, col. 1) the southern quarter, south, Hariv.; R.; Var. &c. (also with diś or āsā)
yāmya mf(ā)n. relating or belonging to Yama, GṛŚrS.; Mn.; MBh. &c.
southern, southerly (also applied to a kind of fever; ˚ye ind. or ˚yena ind. in the south or to the south), TS. &c. &c.
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