# दमयन्ती (damayantī)

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दमयन्ती (damayantī) is a Sanskrit word meaning the wife of Nala, a kind of jasmine, a kind of cucumber, a cucumber, victoria, a proper name. Its 10 recorded definitions are grouped into 3 contexts, among them Damayantī, the epic heroine (wife of Nala), A type of Jasmine plant, Textual emendation note.

- **Root:** दम् (dam)
- **SLP1:** `damayantI`  **IAST:** damayantī  **Devanagari:** दमयन्ती
- **Wikipedia:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damayanti
- **Declensions:** 72 forms — https://sanskritlexicon.com/word/damayanti/declensions.md
- **Other headwords romanised the same way:** दमयंती (damayaṃtī)

## Meanings by context

### Damayantī, the epic heroine (wife of Nala) (8 definitions)
- the wife of Nala  
  *Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)*
  > (H2) [Printed book page 469,3] दमयन्ती (damayantī) f. ‘subduing (men)’, N. of Nala's wife (daughter of Bhīma king of Vidarbha), Nal. [ ID=90293 ]
- 1. Victoria. 2. The wife of Nala.  
  *Macdonell Sanskrit-English Dictionary*
  > दमयन्ती (damayantī) [Printed book page 116-3 ] दमयन्ती (damayantī) dam-ay-ant-ī, f. ( cs. pr. pt. ) Victoria, N. of a Nalaʼs wife. [ ID=9070 ]
- 1. Wife of Nala. 2. A cucumber.  
  *Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary*
  > दमयन्ती (damayantī) [Printed book page 354-b ] दमयन्ती (damayantī) ( न्ती ) ((ntī)) 3. f. Wife of Nala; a cucumber. [ ID=18028 ]
- A proper name  
  *Benfey Sanskrit-English Dictionary*
  > दमयन्ती (damayantī) [Printed book page 0387-a ] दमयन्ती (damayantī) damayantī, fem. of the pres. ptcple. of the Causal of dam, A proper name, Nal. 1, 9. [ ID=6297 ]
- The name of the wife of Nala.  
  *Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary*
  > दमयन्ती (damayantī) [Printed book page 219 ] दमयन्ती (damayantī) f. N. of the wife of Nala. [ ID=13320 ]
- the daughter of Bhima  
  *Lanman's Sanskrit Reader Vocabulary*
  > दमयन्ती (damayantī) [Printed book page 167-b ] damayantī, f. Damayantī, i. e. Victoria, name of Bhīma's daughter. [‘conquering (men),’ fr. √dam, 1043. 5.] [ ID=1889 ]
- 1. The daughter of Bhima and wife of Nala, famous from the Mahabharata. 2. A kind of cucumber.  
  *Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1872)*
  > दमयन्ती (damayantī) [Printed book page 0402-b ] Damayantī, f. (‘subduing men’), N. of a beauti- ful woman who was the daughter of Bhīma, king of Vidarbha, and wife of Nala, whose story forms the subject of a celebrated episode of the Mahā-bhārata; (according to some) = Śākya-muni in a former birth; a kind of cucumber, see bhadra-mallikā. —Dama- yantī-kathā, f. ‘the story of Damayantī,’ N. of a song. —Damayantī-kāvya, am, n. ‘poem of Da- mayantī,’ N. of a work. [ ID=21908 ]
- daughter of the Vidarbha king Bhima, wife of Nala, and mother of Indrasena and Indrasena  
  *Index to the Names in the Mahabharata*
  > दमयन्ती (damayantī) [Printed book page 230-1 ] Damayantī 1, daughter of the Vidarbha king Bhīma, wife of Nala and mother of Indrasena and Indrasenā. § 11 (Parvasaṅgr.): I, 2, 436.—§ 240 (Vaivāhikap.): I, 199, 7351 ( °ī yathā Nale ).—§ 344 (Nalop.): III, 53, 2080 (her birth according to a boon granted by Damana), 2081, 2087, 2092, 2094, 2097, 2098, 2102.—§ 345 (do.): III, 54, 2104, 2105, 2108, 2109, 2111, 2113, 2124 ( Vidarbharājño duhitā ), 2130; 55, 2137, 2139, 2145, 2153; 56, 2172, 2177, 2183, 2184; 57, 2192, 2198, 2212, 2220, 2223, 2230, 2231, 2236, 2237 (married to Nala, and mother of Indrasena and Indrasenā).—§ 346 (do.): III, 58, 2241, 2245; 59, 2265; 60, 2272, 2279, 2282, 2292.—§ 347 (do.): III, 61, 2299, 2303, 2307, 2313, 2320, 2321, 2326, (2328); 62, 2335, 2338, 2339, 2340, 2345, 2347, 2352; 63, 2362, 2392, 2396, 2398; 64, (2413), 2425, 2433 ( Vidarbharājatanayāṃ ), 2443, 2460, 2467, 2484, 2491, 2497 ( Vīrasenanṛpasnuṣā ), 2499 ( Bhīmasutā ), 2504, 2510, 2521; 65, 2550, 2560, 2574, 2583, 2598, 2606, 2607.—§ 348 (do.): III, 66, 2608.— § 349 (do.): III, 67, 2652.—§ 350 (do.). III, 68, 2655, 2657, 2684, 2693; 69, 2694, 2696, 2697, 2704, 2709, 2710, 2719, (2722), 2725, 2728, 2743.—§ 351 (do.): III, 70, 2745, 2757, 2765, 2767; 71, 2772, 2774.—§ 353 (do.): III, 73, 2855, (2859), 2885, 2889; 74, 2894, 2895, 2897, 2920; 75, 2921, 2926, 2927, 2929, 2939, 2943; 76, 2951, 2952, 2957, 2958, 2959, 2965, 2975, (2976), 2992, 2996, 3002, 3003, 3007; 77, 3010, 3012, 3017.—§ 354 (do.): III, 78, 3034, 3041, 3044; 79, 3063, 3064.—§ 355 (do.): III, 79, 3072.—§ 391 (Ṛṣyaśṛṅga): III, 113, 10092 ( yathā …Nalasya vai D°ī ).—§ 555 (Sainyodyogap.): V, 8, 223 ( yathā ).—§ 565 (Gālavacarita): V, 117, 3974 ( reme …yathā…D°yāṃ Nalaḥ ). Cf. Bhaimī, Bhīmanandinī, Bhīmaputrikā, Bhīmasutā (III, 2273, 2278, 2380, 2499, 2509, 2998), Vaidarbhī, Vidarbhādhipatinandinī, Vidarbharājatanayā, Vidarbhatanayā. [ ID=3065 ]

### A type of Jasmine plant (1 definition)
- a kind of jasmine  
  *Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)*
  > a kind of jasmine, L. [ ID=90294 ]

### Textual emendation note (1 definition)
- an error for Madayanti  
  *Index to the Names in the Mahabharata*
  > [Printed book page 230-2 ] Damayantī 2 : XII, 8604 (error in C. instead of Madayantī, q.v.). [ ID=3066 ]

## Sources

Definitions from Benfey Sanskrit-English Dictionary; Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary; Index to the Names in the Mahabharata; Lanman's Sanskrit Reader Vocabulary; Macdonell Sanskrit-English Dictionary; Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1872); Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899); Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary.
Text from the Cologne Digital Sanskrit Lexicon, University of Cologne.

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