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दात्रेय (dAtreya)

 
Monier Williams Cologne
English
दात्रेय॑
m.
a
patron.
, ib.
Schmidt Nachtrage zum Sanskrit Worterbuch
German
दात्रेय꣡ Pl. Maitr. S. 4, 1, 3 (5, 4).
Vedic Reference
English
Dātreya is the patronymic of Arāḍa Śaunaka in the Vaṃśa
Brāhmaṇa.^1 Possibly Dārteya, ‘descendant of Dṛti, should
be read, ^2 but the word may have the same derivation as the
latter form with metathesis.
1) Indische Studien, 4, 373.
2) Cf. St. Petersburg Dictionary, s.v.