# दधिक्रा (dadhikrā)

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दधिक्रा (dadhikrā) is a Sanskrit word meaning a divine horse and personification of the morning sun, the name of a mythological being.

- **SLP1:** `daDikrA`  **IAST:** dadhikrā  **Devanagari:** दधिक्रा
- **Wikipedia:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dadhikra
- **Declensions:** 48 forms — https://sanskritlexicon.com/word/dadhikra/declensions.md
- **Other headwords romanised the same way:** दाधिक्र (dādhikra), दधिक्र (dadhikra)

## Meanings by context

### Other (2 definitions)
- A divine horse and personification of the morning sun  
  *Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)*
  > (H3) [Printed book page 468,1] दधि (dadhi) — क्रा (—krā) m. ( Naighaṇṭuka, commented on by Yāska (subtitle) i, 14; Nirukta, by Yāska (Title) ii, 27 f. and x, 31 ) N. of a divine horse (personification of the morning Sun; addressed in Ṛg-veda (Title) iv, 38 - 40; vii, 44 ), iii, 20; x, 101, 1 [ ID=89915 ]
- The name of a mythological being.  
  *Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary*
  > दधिक्रा (dadhikrā) [Printed book page 218 ] दधिक्रा (dadhikrā) m. N. of a cert. myth. being. [ ID=13256 ]

## Sources

Definitions from Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary; Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899).
Text from the Cologne Digital Sanskrit Lexicon, University of Cologne.

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