MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Upadesh mean?
Upadesha is a Sanskrit term for instruction, counsel or the communication of knowledge. It also has a specific religious use for a teacher's transmission of an initiatory formula to a pupil.
Pronunciation
IAST: upadeśa
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
उपदेश
Letter-by-letter: upadeśa
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Upadesh in Indian usage
8,628 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (82.1%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 1,543 records (17.9%).
- Recorded as male: 7,085 records (82.1%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1950s | 380 |
| 1960s | 1,021 |
| 1970s | 1,795 |
| 1980s | 2,881 |
| 1990s | 2,355 |
| Other decades | 196 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 5,814 |
| Punjab | 609 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 597 |
| Haryana | 442 |
| Bihar | 416 |
| Rajasthan | 341 |
| Uttarakhand | 156 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 136 |
| Other states | 117 |
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, upadeśa, p. 199,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.