Badarinatha, Badarīnātha, Badari-natha: 6 definitions

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Badarinātha (बदरिनाथ) is a place sacred to Viṣṇu in the Himālayas. The Badarinātha peaks, in British Gaṛhwāl, form a group of six summits, from 22,000 to 23,400 feet above the sea. The town of Badarinātha is fifty-five miles north-east of Srinagar, on the right bank of the Viṣṇugaṅgā, a feeder of the Alaknandā. The temple is situated in the highest part of the town, and below it a tank, supplied by a sulphureous thermal spring, is frequented by thousands of pilgrims. The temple is 10,294 feet above the sea. (Akbar, an Eastern Romance, by Dr van Limburg-Brouwer, with an introduction by Clements Markham, p. 1, note.)—The place derives its name from the worship of Viṣṇu in his manifestation as Badarinātha or Badarinārāyaṇa, “Lord of the badari or jujube tree.” Crooke (Hastings’ Ency. Rel. Eth., vol. ii, p. 325) suggests that an ancient tree-cult is probably associated with the thermal spring mentioned above.

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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Badarīnātha (बदरीनाथ).—Name of a temple at Badarī.

Derivable forms: badarīnāthaḥ (बदरीनाथः).

Badarīnātha is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms badarī and nātha (नाथ).

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Aufrecht Catalogus Catalogorum

Badarīnātha (बदरीनाथ) as mentioned in Aufrecht’s Catalogus Catalogorum:—Vṛttapradīpa.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary

1) Badarīnātha (बदरीनाथ):—[=badarī-nātha] [from badarī > badara] m. Name of a temple at B°, [Horace H. Wilson]

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