अनुराध

{ anurādha }

हिन्दी (hindi) WN

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A Sanskrit English Dictionary

अनु-राध  mfn.  mfn. See अनूराध॑

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अनु राध

   born under the asterism अनुराधा, [Pāṇ. 4-3, 34]
अनु-राध  m.  m. N. of a Buddhist

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अनु राध

अनु-राध  m.  m. pl. the seventeenth of the twenty-eight नक्षत्रs or lunar mansions (a constellation described as a line of oblations).

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अनु राध

The Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary

अनुराध [anurādha]   a.
   Causing welfare; also written as अनूराध; इन्द्रं वयमनूराधं हवामहे [AV.]
   Born under the asterism अनुराधा [P.IV.3.34.]
-धः  N. N. of a Buddhist.
-धा [अनुगता राधां विशाखाम् ।]  N. N. of the 17th of the 27 lunar mansions or asterisms (so called because it follows राधा or विशाखा). It consists of four stars. -Comp.
-ग्रामः, -पुरम्   the ancient capital of Laṅkā or Ceylon; founded by अनुराध. Also called अनुरोधपुर, described by Rājaśekhara as full of curiosities. It is a large town in the north of Ceylon "with 16 square granite pillars which supported the floor of an enormous monastery called 'The Great Brazen Palace' said to have been built in 161 B. C."