अधिदैव (adhidaiva) is a Sanskrit word meaning a presiding or tutelary deity, the supreme deity, on the subject of the deity or the divine agent, the divine agent operating in material objects, the ruling deity or active principle in creation, the collective body of gods and superhuman beings. Its 10 recorded definitions are grouped into 6 contexts, among them Presiding/Supreme Deity or Divine Agent, Ruling Deity & Collective Gods (Noun), Grammatical Classification/Reference.
— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)
— Macdonell Sanskrit-English Dictionary
— Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary
— Index to the Names in the Mahabharata
— Wilson Sanskrit-English Dictionary
— Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary
— Goldstücker Sanskrit-English Dictionary
— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)
— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1872)
— Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary
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Definitions on this page come from 9 works: Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Goldstücker Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Index to the Names in the Mahabharata, Macdonell Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1872), Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899), Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Wilson Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary. Text from the Cologne Digital Sanskrit Lexicon.
