# माद्रवती (mādravatī)

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माद्रवती (mādravatī) is a Sanskrit word meaning princess of the Madras and name of the wife of Parikshit, pertaining to the second wife of Pandu, madri, the second wife of Pandu, name of the second wife of Pandu, wife of Parikshit and mother of Janamejaya. Its 10 recorded definitions are grouped into 2 contexts, among them Wife of Pāṇḍu (Mādrī), Wife of Parikṣit.

- **SLP1:** `mAdravatI`  **IAST:** mādravatī  **Devanagari:** माद्रवती
- **Wikipedia:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madravati
- **Declensions:** 72 forms — https://sanskritlexicon.com/word/madravati/declensions.md

## Meanings by context

### Wife of Pāṇḍu (Mādrī) (7 definitions)
- pertaining to the second wife of Pandu  
  *Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)*
  > of the second wife of Pāṇḍu, ib. [ ID=162515 ]
- The second wife of Pandu  
  *Apte Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary*
  > माद्रवती (mādravatī) [Printed book page 0859-a ] माद्रवती (mādravatī) N. of the second wife of Pāṇḍu. [ ID=22957 ]
- Name of the second wife of Pandu  
  *Vaidya Sanskrit-English Dictionary*
  > माद्रवती (mādravatī) [Printed book page 568-02 ] माद्रवती (mādravatī) f. Name of the second wife of Pāṇḍu. [ ID=29894 ]
- The wife of Pandu and mother of the two youngest Pandava princes  
  *Benfey Sanskrit-English Dictionary*
  > माद्रवती (mādravatī) [Printed book page 0699-a ] माद्रवती (mādravatī) mādravatī, i. e. madra + a + vant + ī, f. The wife of Paṇḍu, and mother of the two youngest Pāṇḍava princes, Draup. 8, 17. [ ID=11176 ]
- Madri  
  *Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary*
  > माद्रवती (mādravatī) [Printed book page 406 ] माद्रवती (mādravatī) f. = माद्री (mādrī). [ ID=24572 ]
- Madri  
  *Index to the Names in the Mahabharata*
  > Mādravatī 2 = Mādrī: XIV, 1969 ( °yāḥ sutau, i.e. Nakula and Sahadeva). [ ID=6661 ]
- One of the two wives of Pandu and mother of the twins Nakula and Sahadeva.  
  *The Purana Index*
  > माद्रवती (mādravatī) [Printed book page 2-681 ] Mādravatī — (Mādrī) one of the two wives of Pāṇḍu, gave birth to two twins, Nakula and Sahadeva by the grace of Aśvins. Bhā. IX. 22. 28; Br. III. 71. 155; M. 46. 10; 50. 48; Vā. 96. 154; 99. 243; Vā. 99. 243; Vi. IV. 14. 37-8; 20-40. [ ID=10598 ]

### Wife of Parikṣit (3 definitions)
- princess of the Madras and name of the wife of Parikshit  
  *Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)*
  > (H3) [Printed book page 808,2] माद्र (mādra) — वती (—vatī) f. ‘princess of the Madras’, N. of the wife of Parikṣit, MBh. [ ID=162514 ]
- 1. The wife of Parikshit. 2. Madri, the second wife of Pandu.  
  *Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1872)*
  > माद्रवती (mādravatī) [Printed book page 0768-c ] Mādravatī, f. ‘princess of the Madras,’ N. of the wife of Pari-kṣit; Mādrī the second wife of Pāṇḍu. Page0769-a+ 80 —Mādravatī-suta, as, m. ‘son of the Madra princess,’ epithet of either Nakula or Saha-deva. [ ID=36991 ]
- wife of Parikshit and mother of Janamejaya  
  *Index to the Names in the Mahabharata*
  > माद्रवती (mādravatī) [Printed book page 451-2 ] Mādravatī 1, wife of Parikṣit.—§ 160 (Pūruv.): I, 95, ††3837 (wife of Parikṣit and mother of Janamejaya 1 ). [ ID=6660 ]

## Sources

Definitions from Apte Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary; Benfey Sanskrit-English Dictionary; Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary; Index to the Names in the Mahabharata; Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1872); Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899); The Purana Index; Vaidya Sanskrit-English Dictionary.
Text from the Cologne Digital Sanskrit Lexicon, University of Cologne.

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