MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Sakshi mean?
Sakshi comes from sākṣin, someone who sees an event directly and can bear witness. Indian philosophical usage also employs the witness as an image for observing consciousness.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
साक्षी
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Sakshi in Indian usage
5,800 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 |
|---|---|
| 1980s | 2,096 |
| 1990s | 3,177 |
| Other decades | 527 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Delhi | 5,279 |
| Other states | 521 |
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
- Wiktionary: साक्षी ↗ (opens in a new tab)
meaning
- Monier-Williams, sākṣin, p. 1198,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.