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धातृ m. am. establisher, founder, creator, bearer, supporter (cf. वसु-), orderer, arranger, [RV.] &c. &c. N. of a divine being who personifies these functions (in Vedic times presiding over generation, matrimony, health, wealth, time and season, and associated or identified with सवितृ, प्रजा-पति, त्वष्टृ, बृहस्पति, मित्र, अर्यमन्, विष्णु &c., [RV. x] ; [AV.] ; [TS.] ; [ŚBr.] &c.; later chiefly the creator and maintainer of the world = ब्रह्मा or प्रजा-पति, [MBh.] ; [Kāv.] ; [Pur.] ; in ep. one of the 12 आदित्यs and brother of वि-धातृ and लक्ष्मी, son of ब्रह्मा, [MBh.] ; or of भृगु and ख्याति, [Pur.] ; Fate personified, [Kāv.] ) one of the 49 winds, [VahniP.] paramour, adulterer, [Daś.] the 10th or 44th year in the cycle of Jupiter, [Cat.] धामन् N. of a ऋषि in the 4th मन्व्-अन्तर, [Hariv.] (C. ) त्री f. of an author, [Cat.] ; () f. See धात्री. धातृ [cf. Zd. dātar; Gk. θετήρ; Slav. dĕteli.] धातृ bधात्री, &c. See col. 1.
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