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ānanda

ā-nandá as, m. happiness, joy, enjoyment, sensual pleasure, [RV.]; [AV.]; [VS.]; [R.]; [Ragh.] &c.

ā-nandá (as), m. and (am), n. ‘pure happiness’, one of the three attributes of Ātman or Brahman in the Vedānta philosophy, [Vedāntas.] &c.

ā-nandá (as), m. (in dram.) the thing wished for, the end of the drama [e.g. the VIth Act in the [Veṇīs.]], [Sāh. 399]

a kind of flute

the sixteenth Muhūrta

N. of Śiva

of a Lokeśvara ([Buddh.])

of a Bala ([Jain.]), [L.]

of several men

(also) N. of one of the chief disciples of Gautama Buddha, [MWB. 47] &c.

N. of various authors &c., [Cat.]

of a country

ā-nandá m. and (am), n. N. of the forty-eighth year of the cycle of Jupiter

ā-nandá (am), n. a kind of house

(often at the beginning and end of proper names.)