MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Digvijay mean?
Digvijay combines dik, “direction”, with vijaya, “victory”. The Mahabharata uses this title for the account of conquests made on Yudhishthira's behalf. Later literature also uses Digvijaya for accounts of a teacher’s victories in religious debate.
Pronunciation
IAST: digvijaya
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
दिग्विजय
Letter-by-letter: digvijaya
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Digvijay in Indian usage
13,443 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
The available aggregate sex counts are withheld or incomplete.
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1950s | 484 |
| 1960s | 1,211 |
| 1970s | 2,268 |
| 1980s | 4,414 |
| 1990s | 4,822 |
| Other decades | 244 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 7,734 |
| Bihar | 1,710 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 1,309 |
| Rajasthan | 988 |
| Uttarakhand | 647 |
| Delhi | 316 |
| Jharkhand | 268 |
| Haryana | 210 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 143 |
| Other states | 118 |
How to read these numbers
Small counts and a second count where needed are withheld for privacy; an omitted value is not zero. Coverage, dates and suppression.
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Sources
- Historical Indian voter-record totals, v3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Historical usage; CC0 1.0; birth years 1910–2001
- Monier-Williams, digvijaya, p. 480,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Monier-Williams, digjaya, p. 480,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.