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प्रभद्रक (prabhadraka)

 
Apte
English
प्रभद्रक [prabhadraka],
a.
 Exceedingly handsome or beautiful. -कम् A kind of metre.
Monier Williams Cologne
English
प्र-°भद्रक
mfn.
 exceedingly handsome or beautiful,
MBh.
R.
प्र-°भद्रक
n.
 a kind of metre,
Col.
a combination of 4 Ślokas containing one sentence, Kāvyād., Sch.
Monier Williams 1872
English
प्रभद्रक, अस्, आ, अम्, exceedingly handsome
or beautiful
(अम्), n. a kind of metre, four times
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Apte Hindi
Hindi
प्रभद्रक
वि* - -
अत्यन्त सुन्दर
Mahabharata
English
Prabhadraka, pl. (ºāḥ) (“the beautiful ones”), mostly said of a division of the Pāñcālas. § 561 (Yānasandhip.): V, 48, †1842 (yuvānaḥ)
57, 2264 (Pāñcālāś ca Pºāḥ, among the allies of Yudhishṭhira).--§ 570 (Sainyaniryāṇap.): V, 151, 5153 (ºāś ca Pāñcālā Bhīmasenamukhāḥ).--§ 576 (Bhagavadgītāp.): VI, 19, 712 (followed Dhṛshṭadyumna). --§ 578 (Bhīshmavadhap.): VI, 49, 2022.--§ 580 (do.): VI, 56, 2416 (Pāñcālāś ca Pºāḥ, followed Dhṛshṭadyumna and Śikhaṇḍin).--§ 592 (Saṃśaptakavadhap.): VII, 23, 992 (Kāmbojāḥ?, followed Dhṛshṭadyumna)
1026 (followed Bhīmasena).--§ 593 (Abhimanyuvadhap.): VII, 35, 1528. --§ 599 (Jayadrathavadhap.): VII, 95, 3535 (followed Dhṛshṭadyumna).--§ 600 (Ghaṭotkacavadhap.): VII, 162, 7258
183, 8345 (followed Śikhaṇḍin).--§ 601 (Droṇavadhap.): VII, 184, 8367.--§ 603 (Nārāyaṇāstramokshap.): VII, 193, 8919 (ºaiś ca Pāñcālaiḥ).--§ 605 (Karṇap.): VIII, 12, 454
22, 870 (), 888
30, 1230.-§ 608 (do.): VIII, 48, 2243 (ºānāṃ pravarān adahat saptasaptatiṃ, sc. Karṇa), (), 2253
49, 2333
56, 2756
67, †3370, †3376.--§ 609 (Śalyap.): IX, 1, 31 (had been slain, cf. § 616).--§ 610 (do.): IX, 7, 336.--§ 611 (do.): IX, 11, 552 (many P. slain by Śalya)
15, 759 (supported Śikhaṇḍin)
27, 1448.--§ 616 (Sauptikap.): X, 8, 367, 381 (C. has by error Saº), 384 (slain by Aśvatthāman).
पुराणम्
English
प्रभद्रक / PRABHADRAKA. A special division of the army of Pāñcālarāja. This division comprises of Kṣatriyas only. dhṛṣṭadyumna and śikhaṇḍī were its leaders. During the kurukṣetra battle śalya slew many of the Prabhadrakas. The rest of the Prabhadrakas were killed by Āśvatthāmā while they were sleeping. (Chapter 8, Sauptika Parva
Chapter 57. Udyoga Parva
Chapter 19, bhīṣma parva, Chapter 11, śalya Parva).
वाचस्पत्यम्
Sanskrit
प्रभद्रक
न०
 “भवति नजौ भजौ रसहितौ प्रभद्रकम्”वृ० र० उक्ते पञ्चदशाक्षरपादके छन्दोभेदे ।
Stchoupak
French
प्र-भद्रक-
a. extrêmement beau.