1. An epithet of Vishnu or Shiva.
2. An attendant of Shiva.
3. Gambling or gaming.
4. Joy, delight, pleasure, happiness, prosperity, or welfare.
5. Joy personified as a daughter of Heaven or as the wife of Kama and mother of Harsha.
नन्दि (nandi) [Printed book page 0467-c] Nandi, is, m. (for
nandī see under
nanda),
‘the happy one,’ epithet of Viṣṇu; of Śiva; N. of
an attendant of Śiva [cf.
nandin and
nandikeśvara];
N. of a man; of a Gandharva; (according to some
also) the speaker of the prologue or prelude to a
drama or one who pronounces the benediction, see
nāndī, nāndin; (is, i), m. n. gambling, gaming;
(
is), f. joy, delight, pleasure, happiness, prosperity,
welfare, (in these senses said to be also m. n.); Joy
personified as a daughter of Heaven or as the wife of
Kāma and mother of Harṣa.
—Nandi-kuṇḍa, as, am, m. n., N. of a sacred bathing-place.
—Nandi- kṣetra, am, n., N. of a district frequented by the
gods.
—Nandi-giri, is, m., N. of a mountain; [cf.
nandi-devī.]
—Nandigiri-māhātmya, am, n. ‘the
glory of Nandi-giri,’ N. of a work.
—Nandi- gupta, as, m., N. of a prince of Kaśmīra.
—Nandi- grāma, as, m., N. of a village (near the modern
Daulatābād, where Bharata resided during Rāma's
banishment).
—Nandigrāma-darśana, am, n.
‘description of the village Nandi-grāma,’ the twenty-
ninth chapter of the Pātāla-khaṇḍa of the Padma-
Purāṇa.
—Nandi-ghoṣa, as, m. cry of joy (
= vandi-ghoṣa); the proclamation of a panegyrist
or herald; the chariot of Arjuna.
—Nandi-taru, us, m.
= dhava, the tree Grislea Tomentosa.
—Nandi- tūrya, am, n. a musical instrument played on joyful
occasions.
—Nandi-deva, as, m., N. of a man; (
ī), ? the
common N. of one of the loftiest Himalayan peaks.
—Nandi-purāṇa, am, n. ‘the Purāṇa of Nandi,’
N. of part of the Kedāra-kalpa.
—Nandi-mukha = nandī-mukha, a species of rice [cf.
nadī-mukha];
N. of a man.
—Nandimukha-sughoṣa, as, m., N.
of a man.
—Nandimukhasughoṣāvadāna (°ṣa- av°), N. of a Buddhist work.
—Nandi-rudra, as, m., N. of Śiva in a joyful or serene form.
—Nandi- vardhana, as, ā, am, increasing pleasure, promoting
happiness; (
as), m. an epithet of Śiva; a son [cf.
nandana]; a friend; the end of a half month,
i. e. the day of full moon or new moon; N. of a
particular form of temple (
= nandin); N. of a
prince, son of Udāvasu or of Janaka, (in this sense
also read
nandi-vardha); N. of a place.
—Nandi- vāralaka, as, m. a species of fish.
—Nandi-vṛkṣa or
nandi-vṛkṣaka, as, m. the tree Cedrela Toona;
[cf.
nandī-vṛkṣa.]
—Nandi-vega, ās, m. pl., N.
of a people.
—Nandi-ṣeṇa or
nandi-sena, as, m.,
N. of one of Skanda's attendants.
—Nandiṣeṇeśvara (°ṇa-īś°), am, n., N. of a Liṅga.
—Nandī-mukha, as, m. (
nandī for
nandi?), ‘having joy on the
face,’ an epithet of Śiva; a species of aquatic bird;
a species of rice [cf.
nandi-mukha, nadī-mukha, nāndī-mukhī]; (
ās), m. pl. a class of manes or
deceased ancestors who are worshipped on festival
occasions [cf.
nāndī-mukha]; (
ī), f. sleep (in which
the face shows joy), drowsiness; a species of the
Ati-śakvarī metre; (more correctly
nāndī-mukha.)
—Nandīśa (°di-īśa), as, m., N. of one of Śiva's
Page0468-a+ 79 attendants [cf.
nandi, nandin]; N. of Śiva; a kind
of time in music
(= nandīśvara).
—Nandīśvara (°di-īś°), as, m. ‘lord of joy,’ an epithet of Śiva;
N. of Nandin, the leader of Śiva's attendants; N. of
one of Kuvera's attendants; N. of a place held sacred
by the Jainas; a kind of time in music
(= nandīśa). —Nandīśvara-purāṇa = nandi-purāṇa.
—Nan- dīśvara-yogopākhyāna (°ga-up°), am, n., N. of
the thirty-first and thirty-second chapters of the
Uttara-khaṇḍa of the Śiva-Purāṇa.
—Nandīśvarot- patti (°di-īś°, °ra-ut°), is, f. ‘the birth of Śiva,’
N. of the forty-second chapter of the Liṅga-Purāṇa.
—Nandy-āvarta, as, m. a particular kind of
diagram [cf.
nandikāvarta]; a sort of palace or
temple built in the shape of the above diagram or in
the form of a quadrangle without a western gate, (in
this sense also
am, n.); a species of large fish; a
kind of tree; the shrub Tabernæmontana Corona-
ria (
= tagara, = bhagavad-druma), probably the
sacred fig-tree; a species of shell called so because
of its convolutions
(āvarta).
—Nandy-upapurāṇa, am, n.
= nandi-purāṇa.
—Nandy-upākhyāna, am, n. ‘the episode of Nandi,’ N. of the forty-fifth
to the fiftieth chapter of the Uttara-khaṇḍa of the
Śiva-Purāṇa.
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