# महागौरी (mahāgaurī)

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महागौरी (mahāgaurī) is a Sanskrit word meaning one of the nine forms of Durga, the name of a river, a river originating in the Vindhya mountains. Its 4 recorded definitions are grouped into 2 contexts, among them A river, A form of Goddess Durgā.

- **SLP1:** `mahAgOrI`  **IAST:** mahāgaurī  **Devanagari:** महागौरी
- **Wikipedia:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahagauri
- **Declensions:** 72 forms — https://sanskritlexicon.com/word/mahagauri/declensions.md
- **Other headwords romanised the same way:** महागौरि (mahāgauri)

## Meanings by context

### A river (3 definitions)
- The name of a river  
  *Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)*
  > N. of a river, MBh.; MārkP. [ ID=159504 ]
- a river  
  *Index to the Names in the Mahabharata*
  > महागौरी (mahāgaurī) [Printed book page 455-1 ] Mahāgaurī, a river. § 574 (Jambūkh.): VI, 9 λ, 341 (in Bhāratavarṣa). [ ID=6764 ]
- a river originating in the Vindhya mountains  
  *The Purana Index*
  > महागौरी (mahāgaurī) [Printed book page 2-650 ] Mahāgaurī — a R. from the Vindhyas. Br. II. 16. 33; M. 114. 28; Vā. 45. 103. [ ID=10320 ]

### A form of Goddess Durgā (1 definition)
- one of the nine forms of Durga  
  *Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)*
  > (H3) [Printed book page 795,2] महा (mahā) — गौरी (—gaurī) f. one of the 9 forms of Durgā, Cat. [ ID=159503 ]

## Sources

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

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