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maghavan

maghavan (magha), mfn. (middle stem maghavat [which may be used throughout], weak stem maghon; nom. m. maghavā or vān f. maghonī or maghavatī [ Vop. ]; n. maghavat; nom. pl. m. once maghonas; cf. Pāṇ. vi, 4, 128 ; 133 ), possessing or distributing gifts, bountiful, liberal, munificent ( esp. said of

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Where it lives

  • Prasna Upanisad 1 · 1.53/10k
  • Chandogya Upanisad 5 · 1.07/10k

What it meant — Monier-Williams

1. مَغهَثَن

maghavan (magha), mfn. (middle stem maghavat [which may be used throughout], weak stem maghon; nom. m. maghavā or vān f. maghonī or maghavatī [ Vop. ]; n. maghavat; nom. pl. m. once maghonas; cf. Pāṇ. vi, 4, 128 ; 133 ), possessing or distributing gifts, bountiful, liberal, munificent ( esp. said of Indra and other gods, but also of institutors of sacrifices who pay the priests and singers), RV. ; AV. ; TS. ; ŚBr. ; Up.

2. مَغهَثَ

maghava m. = maghavan, BhavP.

In the wild

Sanskrit corpus record built from GRETIL sources (citations and statistics; GRETIL running text is not redistributable). Passage text, where shown, from the Digital Corpus of Sanskrit (CC BY 4.0). Dictionary senses from Monier-Williams (1899, public domain), via the Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries.