चन्द्रावती

{ candrāvatī }

Puranic Encyclopaedia

CANDRĀVATĪ   Daughter of Sunābha, the asura. Pradyumna, son born to Śrī Kṛṣṇa of Rukmiṇī, married Prabhāvatī, daughter of the asura called Vajranābha. Sunābha was the younger brother of Vajranābha. Sunābha had two daughters called Candrāvatī and Guṇavatī. These girls once saw Pradyumna and Prabhāvatī engaged in love-talk and they were attracted by Pradyumna. They requested Prabhāvatī to select husbands for them also from among the Yādavas. Prabhāvatī, in her childhood had learnt from Durvāsas a mantra, the repetition of which by a woman thinking in mind of any male would help to secure that male as the husband for her. Prabhāvatī taught that mantra to Candrāvatī and Guṇavatī. They thought respectively of Gada and Sāmba and repeated the mantra with the result that Gada married Candrāvatī and Sāmba married Guṇavatī.
CANDRĀVATĪ   A wife of Hariścandra in his former birth. (See Hariścandra).

A Sanskrit English Dictionary

चन्द्रा-वती  f.  f. N. of a place of pilgrimage

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चन्द्रा वती

of the wife of king धर्म-सेन, [Vet. xxv.]

संस्कृतम् (Sanskrit) WN

noun  राज्ञः धर्मसेनस्य पत्नी ।   Ex. चन्द्रावती वेताल पञ्चविंशतिकायाम् उल्लिखिता वर्तते
noun  एकं तीर्थक्षेत्रम् ।   Ex. चन्द्रावती कोशे उल्लिखिता वर्तते