श्रद्धा (śraddhā) is a Sanskrit word meaning having faith, trusting, or believing, faith, trust, or belief, to have faith, confidence, or belief, to credit and consider something true, to consent, assent to, or approve, faith, trust, confidence, or loyalty. Its 37 recorded definitions are grouped into 9 contexts, among them Faith, Trust, Belief, Confidence, Desire, Longing, Wish, Curiosity, Appetite, Śraddhā as a Proper Noun (Deity, Mythological Figure, Authoress).
1. To have faith, confidence, or belief. 2. To credit and consider something true. 3. To consent, assent to, or approve.
(H2) [Printed book page 1095,3] श्रद्- (śrad-)√धा (√dhā)bP.Ā.-दधाति (-dadhāti), -धत्ते (-dhatte) (pr. p.श्रद्दधत् (śraddadhat), श्रद्- (śrad-)दधान (na) (śrad-dadhāna); Ved.inf.श्रद्धे (śraddhe)cf.श्रत् (śrat) above), to have faith or faithfulness, have belief or confidence, believe, be true or trustful (with न (na), ‘to disbelieve’ &c.), Ṛg-veda (Title) &c. &c. to credit, think anything true (two acc.), Mahābhārata (Title) ; Kāvya literature (Literary category) &c. to believe or have faith in or be true to (with dat., and in later language with gen. of thing or person, or with loc. of thing), Ṛg-veda (Title) &c. &c. to expect anything (acc.) from (abl.), Mahābhārata (Title) ; to consent, assent to, approve, welcome (with acc.; with न (na), ‘to disapprove’), Kathāsaritsāgara (Title) ; to be desirous of (acc.), wish to (inf.), in the same place [Cologne Addition] (Title) ; Bhāgavata-purāṇa (Title) : Caus.-धापयति (-dhāpayati), to make faithful, render trustful, inspire confidence, Ṛg-veda (Title) x, 151, 5. [ID=222332]
श्रद्धा (śraddhā)cf. faith, trust, confidence, trustfulness, faithfulness, belief in (loc. or comp.; श्रद्धया- (śraddhayā-)√गम् (√gam), ‘to believe in’, with gen.Divyāvadāna (Title) ), trust, confidence, loyalty (Faith or Faithfulnesses is often personified and in Ṛg-veda (Title) x, 151 invoked as a deity; in Taittirīya-brāhmaṇa (Title) she is the daughter of Prajā-pati, and in Śatapatha-brāhmaṇa (Title) of the Sun; in Mahābhārata (Title) she is the daughter of Dakṣa and wife of Dharma; in Mārkaṇḍeya-purāṇa (Title) she is the mother of Kāma, and in Bhāgavata-purāṇa (Title) the daughter of Kardama and wife of Aṅgiras or Manu), Ṛg-veda (Title) &c. &c. [ID=222333]
1. To place confidence in, have faith in, trust, or believe. 2. To respect.
श्रद्धा (śraddhā) [Printed book page 1024-a] Śrad-dhā (cf. perhaps cred-o for cred-do), cl. 3. P. A. -dadhāti, -dhatte, -dhātum, to place con- fidence in, have faith in, trust, believe, (śraddhātumarhaḥ, worthy to be believed, trustworthy); to respect. [ID=47339]
wish, desire (श्रद्धया (śraddhayā)ind. ‘willingly, gladly’), longing for (loc.acc. with प्रति (prati)inf., or comp.), Mahābhārata (Title) ; Kāvya literature (Literary category) &c. [ID=222334]
Sāvitṝ, cf. the allegoric explanation of Nīl.), 9450.
[ID=2684]
— Index to the Names in the Mahabharata
A daughter of Kardama married to Angirasa and mother of several children including Sinivali, Kuhu, Raka, Anumati, Utathya, and Brihaspati.
श्रद्धा (śraddhā) [Printed book page 3-474] Śraddhā (I) — a daughter of Kardama married to An- girasa. Mother of four daughters — Sinīvālī, Kuhū, Rākā and Anumatī and sons Utathya and Bṛhaspati. Bhā. III. 24. 22; IV. 1. 34 and 35. [ID=14857]
— The Purana Index
1. A daughter of Daksha and wife of Dharma.
2. The mother of Shubha and Kama.
Śraddhā (II) — a daughter of Dakṣa and wife of Dharma; mother of Śubha and Kāma. Bhā. IV. 1. 49-50; Br. II. 9. 49 and 58; Vā. 10. 25, 35; Vi. I. 7. 23 and 28. [ID=14858]
— The Purana Index
a wife of Shraddhadeva and mother of ten sons
Śraddhā (III) — a wife of Śrāddhadeva and mother of ten sons; observed payovrata and wanted the birth of a daughter. Ilā was born. Bhā. IX. 1. 11, 14-16. [ID=14859]
— The Purana Index
one of the wives of Vasudeva and mother of Gaveshavan
Śraddhā(devī) (IV) — one of the wives of Vasudeva and mother of Gaveṣavān. M. 46. 20. [ID=14860]
— The Purana Index
Grammatical Information / Cross-references
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faith, trust, or belief
(H2B) [Printed book page 1095,3] श्रद्-धा (śrad-dhā)a (आ (ā)), f., see below [ID=222328]
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Definitions on this page come from 9 works:
Apte Practical 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), The Purana Index, Vaidya Sanskrit-English Dictionary. Text from the Cologne Digital Sanskrit Lexicon.
