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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Naganadī (नगनदी).—f. A mountain-river; see नगापगा (nagāpagā); विश्रान्तः सन् व्रज नगनदीतीर- जातानि सिञ्चन् (viśrāntaḥ san vraja naganadītīra- jātāni siñcan) Me.

Naganadī is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms naga and nadī (नदी).

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dictionary

Nāganadī (नागनदी).—‘river of nāgas (serpent-demons)’, epithet of the Nairañjanā, given to it because nāgas lived in it (Lalitavistara 270.2 ff.), as in the Pali (see 1 Nerañjarā, Malalasekara (Dictionary of Pali Proper Names)): (bodhisattvas…) nāganadīṃ (10) pūrvāhna- (v.l. °hne) kālasamaye nadī- (so mss., Lefm. nadīṃ) nairañjanām upasaṃkramya…(11) nadīṃ (so Lefm., but most and best mss. nadī-, again) nairañjanām avatarati sma Lalitavistara 269.9 ff.; this word is confirmed by Tibetan which also con- nects it syntactically with nadī-nair° of line 10, kluḥi (of nāgas) kluṅ (river) chu bo (water, river) nai ra ñja naḥi (of the N.) ṅogs su (to the bank) soṅ ste (being gone); similarly twice in Mahāvastu,…nāganadī- (so mss., Senart wrongly °nandī)-kālasamaye (does this mean betimes, at the appro- priate hour? compare nadī-kālasamaya; perhaps at the proper time for [bathing in] the nāga-river?) yena (?this word may not have been in the text) nadī-nairañjanā (v.l. °nān) tenopasaṃkramitvā…Mahāvastu ii.131.11; and similarly ii.264.3, except that here one ms. is reported to read -nandī- (instead of nadī-)kālasamaye with Senart's text (and both have nāma- for nāga-), but the Lalitavistara parallel (and reading of the other ms. here and both in 131.11) proves this wrong.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Naganadī (नगनदी).—[feminine] [Name] of a river.

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

Naganadī (नगनदी):—[=na-ga-nadī] [from na-ga] f. ‘m°-river’, Name of a river, [Meghadūta]

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Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.

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Partial matches: Naga, Nadi, Nati.

Full-text: Nadikala.

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