# पद्मावती (padmāvatī)

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पद्मावती (padmāvatī) is a Sanskrit word meaning Hibiscus Mutabilis, a kind of Prakrit metre, an epithet of Lakshmi, of the goddess Manasa, one of the mothers attending on Skanda, of a Surangana. Its 31 recorded definitions are grouped into 12 contexts, among them A Name with Multiple Meanings or Lexicographical Note, Name of Various Human Women, Name of a City.

- **Etymology:** E. पद्म a lotus, मतुप् aff., fem. aff. ङीप्, and the antepen. made long — E. padma a lotus, matup aff., fem. aff. ṅīp, and the antepen. made long
- **SLP1:** `padmAvatI`  **IAST:** padmāvatī  **Devanagari:** पद्मावती
- **Wikipedia:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Padmavati_%28Hinduism%29
- **Declensions:** 72 forms — https://sanskritlexicon.com/word/padmavati/declensions.md
- **Other headwords romanised the same way:** पद्मवती (padmavatī)

## Meanings by context

### A Name with Multiple Meanings or Lexicographical Note (8 definitions)
- 1. An epithet of Lakshmi. 2. A proper name. 3. An epithet of Ujjayini in the Krita age.  
  *Macdonell Sanskrit-English Dictionary*
  > पद्मावती (padmāvatī) [Printed book page 152-3 ] पद्मावती (padmāvatī) padmā-vat-ī, f. ep. of Lakṣmī; N.; ep. of Ujjayinī in the Kṛta age; T. of the 17th Lambaka in the Kathāsaritsāgara. [ ID=11116 ]
- 1. The wife of the sage Jaratkaru. 2. The main stream of the Ganges between the Kasimbazar river and the sea.  
  *Wilson Sanskrit-English Dictionary*
  > पद्म (padma) ावती (padmāvatī) [Printed book page 501 ] पद्म (padma) ावती (padmāvatī) f. ( - ती (-tī) ) 1 The wife of the sage JARATKĀRU. 2 The name of a river, the main stream of the Ganges, between the Kasim bazar river and the sea. E. पद्म (padma) a lotus, मतुप् (matup) aff., fem. aff. ङीप् (ṅīp), and the antepen. made long. [ ID=23195 ]
- 1. The wife of the sage Jaratkaru. 2. Name of a river.  
  *Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary*
  > पद्मावती (padmāvatī) [Printed book page 447-b ] पद्मावती (padmāvatī) ( ती ) ((tī)) 1. f. The wife of the sage Jaratkāru; name of a river. [ ID=22668 ]
- 1. An epithet of Lakshmi. 2. The name of a river.  
  *Vaidya Sanskrit-English Dictionary*
  > पद्मावती (padmāvatī) [Printed book page 410-10 ] पद्मावती (padmāvatī) f. 1. An epithet of Lakshmī; 2. the name of a river. [ ID=21013 ]
- 1. An epithet of the goddess Manasa, wife of Jaratkaru. 2. A name of the main stream of the Ganges river between the Kasimbazar river and the sea.  
  *Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary*
  > पद्म (padma) ावती (padmāvatī) [Printed book page 420-a ] पद्म (padma) ावती (padmāvatī) f. ( - ती (-tī) ) 1. A name of the goddess manasā or the wife of the JARATKĀRU. 2. The name of a river, the main stream of the Ganges, between the KĀSIMBĀZĀR river and the sea. E. पद्म (padma) a lotus, मतुप (matupa) aff., fem. aff. ङीप्, (ṅīp,) and the antepen. made long. [ ID=23181 ]
- 1. A surname of Lakshmi. 2. A proper name.  
  *Benfey Sanskrit-English Dictionary*
  > पद्मावती (padmāvatī) [Printed book page 0513-b ] पद्मावती (padmāvatī) padmāvatī, i. e. padma + vant + ī, f. 1. A surname of Lakṣmī, Gīt. 1, 2. 2. A proper name. [ ID=8082 ]
- abundant in lotuses  
  *Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary*
  > पद्मावती (padmāvatī) [Printed book page 295 ] पद्मावती (padmāvatī) f. = पद्मवती (padmavatī). [ ID=17876 ]
- 1. The plant Hibiscus mutabilis. 2. A kind of Prakrit metre. 3. An epithet of Lakshmi. 4. An epithet of the goddess Manasa. 5. A Matri attending on Skanda. 6. A divine being executing the orders of the twenty-third Arhat. 7. The name of various historical or legendary women. 8. The name of a city and a river.  
  *Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1872)*
  > पद्मावती (padmāvatī) [Printed book page 0532-a ] Padmāvatī, f. Hibiscus Mutabilis; a kind of Prākṛt metre; an epithet of Lakṣmī; N. of one of the Mātṛs attending on Skanda; an epithet of the goddess Manasā; N. of a divine being executing the orders of the twenty-third Arhat of the present Ava-sarpiṇī; N. of a wife of king Śṛgāla; of a wife of Yudhi-ṣṭhira, king of Kaśmīra; of the wife of Jaya-deva; of a poetess; of a wife of king Vīra- bāhu; of king Naya-pāla; of a city; of a river; of the seventeenth Lambaka of the Kathā-sarit- sāgara. —Padmāvatī-priya, as, m. ‘husband of Padmāvatī,’ an epithet of Jarat-kāru. [ ID=26938 ]

### Name of Various Human Women (7 definitions)
- a wife of king Shrigala  
  *Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)*
  > of a wife of king Śṛgāla, Hariv. [ ID=115752 ]
- a wife of Yudhishthira and queen of Kashmir  
  *Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)*
  > of a w° of Yudhi-ṣṭhira ( k° of Kaśmīra), Rājat. [ ID=115753 ]
- the wife of Jayadeva  
  *Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)*
  > of the w° of Jaya-deva, Gīt. [ ID=115754 ]
- wife of king Virabahu  
  *Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)*
  > of a w° of k° Vīra-bāhu, Vet. [ ID=115755 ]
- wife of king Naya-pala  
  *Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)*
  > of a w° of k° Naya-pāla, ib. [ ID=115756 ]
- of a poetess  
  *Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)*
  > of a poetess, Cat. [ ID=115757 ]
- a daughter of Bhangkara, given in marriage to Krishna  
  *The Purana Index*
  > Padmāvatī (II) — a daughter of Bhaṅgakāra, who was given in marriage to Kṛṣṇa. M. 45. 21. [ ID=7536 ]

### Name of a City (4 definitions)
- of the city of Ujjayini in the Krta-yuga  
  *Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)*
  > of the city of Ujjayinī in the Kṛta-yuga, Kathās. [ ID=115758 ]
- of another city  
  *Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)*
  > of another city, VP. [ ID=115759 ]
- 1. An ancient town identified with modern Narwar in Malva. 2. The setting of the Malati-Madhava play.  
  *Apte Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary*
  > [Printed book page 1194-b ] पद्मावती (padmāvatī) Identified with the modern Narwār in Mālva as being situated on the river Sind or Sindhu. The other rivers, that are in its vicinity, are Pārā or Pārvatī, Luṇa, and Madhuvar which correspond to the Pārā, Lavaṇā and ( pb ) Madhumatī, mentioned by Bhavabhūti, as flowing in the vicinity of the town. This town was the scene of Bhavabhūti's Mālati-Mādhava. [ ID=32139 ]
- the capital of the Nagas  
  *The Purana Index*
  > पद्मावती (padmāvatī) [Printed book page 2-285 ] Padmāvatī (I) — the city of Purañjaya the capital of the Nāgas. Bhā. XII. 1. 37. Vi. IV. 24. 63. [ ID=7535 ]

### A Mātṛ or Divine Attendant (2 definitions)
- one of the mothers attending on Skanda  
  *Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)*
  > of one of the Mātṛs attending on Skanda, MBh. [ ID=115749 ]
- a goddess mother  
  *Index to the Names in the Mahabharata*
  > पद्मावती (padmāvatī) [Printed book page 523-2 ] Padmāvatī = a mātṛ. § 615 u (Skanda): IX, 46 θ, 2627. [ ID=7841 ]

### Epithet of Goddess Lakṣmī (2 definitions)
- An epithet of Lakshmi  
  *Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)*
  > N. of Lakṣmī, Gīt. [ ID=115747 ]
- An epithet of Lakshmi.  
  *Apte Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary*
  > पद्मावती (padmāvatī) [Printed book page 0665-a ] 1 An epithet of Lakshmī. [ ID=17736 ]

### Name of a River (2 definitions)
- of a river  
  *Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)*
  > of a river, L. [ ID=115760 ]
- The name of a river  
  *Apte Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary*
  > पद्मावती (padmāvatī) [Printed book page 0665-a ] 2 N. of a river; Mālatīmādhava (Bombay) 9. 1. [ ID=17736 ]

### A Jaina Deity (1 definition)
- a Jaina deity  
  *Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)*
  > of a Jaina deity, L. [ ID=115751 ]

### A Prākṛt Metre (1 definition)
- a kind of Prakrit metre  
  *Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)*
  > a kind of Prākṛt metre, Col. [ ID=115746 ]

### A Surāṅganā (1 definition)
- of a Surangana  
  *Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)*
  > of a Surāṅganā, Siṃhās. [ ID=115750 ]

### Epithet of Goddess Manasā (1 definition)
- of the goddess Manasa  
  *Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)*
  > of the goddess Manasā, L. [ ID=115748 ]

### The plant Hibiscus Mutabilis (1 definition)
- Hibiscus Mutabilis  
  *Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)*
  > (H3) [Printed book page 585,1] पद्मा - वती (padmā-vatī) f. ( cf. ° द्म - व् ° (°dma-v°) and Pāṇini (Author) vi, 3, 119 &c.) Hibiscus Mutabilis, L. [ ID=115745 ]

### Title of a Text/Chapter (1 definition)
- This entry contains a textual citation rather than a standalone definition.  
  *Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)*
  > of Kathāsaritsāgara (Title) xvii [ ID=115761 ]

## Sources

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

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