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Monier Monier-Williams, A Sanskrit–English Dictionary

हिमालयhimālayam. "abode of snow", the Hima7laya हिमा*लय range of mountains (bounding India on the north and containing the…
1. masculine gender "abode of snow", the Hima7laya हिमा*लय range of mountains (bounding India on the north and containing the highest elevations in the world; in mythology personified as husband of Mena1 मेना or Menaka1 मेनका [by whom he had a son Maina1ka मैनाक] and father of Pa1rvati1 पार्वती, "daughter of the Mountain", and of Gan3ga1 गङ्गा, who, as the personified Ganges, is generally regarded as his eldest daughter) Bhag. Ka1v. etc.
2. masculine gender the white Khadira खदिर tree Lexicographers
3. Nominal verb Parasmaipada that the rest of a word is to be suppliedयति, to resemble the Hima7laya हिमा*लय Dhu1rtas.
In the Gita10·25

यज्ञानां जपयज्ञोऽस्मि स्थावराणां हिमालयः ॥

yajñānāṁ japayajño'smi sthāvarāṇāṁ himālayaḥ. — I am Bhrigu among the great Rishis; I am the sacred syllable OM among words; among acts of worship I am the worship called Japa (silent repetitions of… 10·25
- हिमालयःhimālayaḥnominative singular of the masculine noun himālaya (Mount Himalaya, the treasure-house of ice and snow).
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रुद्रहिमालयrudrahimālayam. N. of a peak of the Hima7laya हिमा*लय mountains L.

masculine gender Name of a peak of the Hima7laya हिमा*लय mountains Lexicographers

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हिमालयाhimālayāf. Flacourtia Cataphracta L.

feminine Flacourtia Cataphracta Lexicographers

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हिमालयासुताhimālayāsutāf. "daughter of Him Hima7laya हिमा*लय", Pa1rvati पार्वति Kavik.

feminine "daughter of Him Hima7laya हिमा*लय", Pa1rvati पार्वति Kavik.

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