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नंदः (naMdaH)

 
Apte 1890
English
नंदः [नंद्-भावे घञ्] 1 Happiness, pleasure, joy.
2 A kind of lute (11 inches long).
3 A frog.
4 N. of Viṣṇu.
5 N. of a cowherd, husband of Yaśodā and foster-father of Kṛṣṇa (to whose care the child was committed when Kaṃsa wanted to destroy it).
6 N. of the founder of the Nanda dynasty
or of nine brother-kings of Pāṭaliputra killed by the machinations of Chāṇakya, the minister of Chandragupta
समुत्खाता नंदा नव हृदयरोगा इव भुवः Mu. 1. 13
अगृहीते राक्षसे किमुत्खातं नंदवंशस्य Mu. 1, 3. 27, 28.
7 One of the nine treasures of Kubera.
दी An epithet of Durgā.
Comp.
आत्मजः,
नंदनः an epithet of Kṛṣṇa.
पालः an epithet of Varuṇa.