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चन्द्रावती (candrAvatI)

 
Monier Williams Cologne
English
चन्द्रा-वती
f.
N.
of a place of pilgrimage
of the wife of king Dharma-sena,
Vet.
xxv.
Wordnet
Sanskrit
Synonyms:
चन्द्रावती
noun
राज्ञः धर्मसेनस्य पत्नी
"चन्द्रावती वेताल-पञ्चविंशतिकायाम् उल्लिखिता वर्तते"
Synonyms:
चन्द्रावती
noun
एकं तीर्थक्षेत्रम्
"चन्द्रावती कोशे उल्लिखिता वर्तते"
पुराणम्
English
चन्द्रावती / 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.
चन्द्रावती / CANDRĀVATĪ. A wife of hariścandra in his former birth. (See hariścandra).