bhadrá mf(A/)n. blessed, auspicious, fortunate, prosperous, happy, [RV.] &c. &c.
good, gracious, friendly, kind, [ib.]
excellent, fair, beautiful, lovely, pleasant, dear, [ib.]
good i.e. skilful in (loc.), [MBh. iv, 305]
great, [L.]
(with nṛpati m. a good or gracious king, [Yājñ.]; with kānta m. a beautiful lover or husband, [Pañcat.]; with diś f. the auspicious quarter i.e. the south, [MBh.]; with vāc f. kind or friendly speech, [BhP.]; voc. m. and f. sg. and pl. , °dre, °drāḥ, often in familiar address = my good sir or lady, my dear or my dears, good people, [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.)
bhadrá m. (prob.) a sanctimonious hypocrite, [Mn. ix, 259] (v.l. °dra-prekṣaṇikaiḥ)
a partic. kind of elephant, [R.] (also N. of a world elephant, [ib.]) a bullock, [L.]
a water wagtail, [Var.] (cf. -nāman)
Nauclea Cadamba or Tithymalus Antiquorum, [L.]
N. of Śiva, [L.]
of mount Meru, [L.]
of a class of gods (pl.) under the third Manu, [BhP.]
of a people (pl.), [AV.Pariś.]
of one of the 12 sons of Viṣṇu and one of the Tuṣita deities in the Svāyambhava Manv-antara, [BhP.]
(with Jainas) of the third of the 9 white Balas, [L.]
of a son of Vasu-deva and Devakī (or Pauravī), [BhP.]; [Kathās.]
of a son of Kṛṣṇa, [BhP.]
of a son of Upacārumat, [Buddh.]
of an actor, [Hariv.]
of a friend of Bāṇa, [Vās., Introd.]
(with Buddhists) N. of a partic. world
bhadrá n. prosperity, happiness, health, welfare, good fortune (also pl.), [RV.] &c. &c. (bhadraṃ tasya or tasmai, prosperity to him! [Pāṇ. ii, 3, 73]; bhadraṃ te or vaḥ often used parenthetically in a sentence = ‘if you please’, or to fill up a verse; bhadram upalāh, happiness to you, O stones! [Śāntiś.]; bhadram with √ kṛ and dat., to grant welfare to, bless, [RV.])
gold, [L.]
iron or steel, [L.]
kind of Cyperus (= -musta), [L.]
a partic. posture in sitting, [Cat.]
bhadrá n. a partic. Karaṇa, [L.] (cf. f.)
bhadrá n. a partic. mystic sign, [AgP.]
a partic. part of a house, [Nalac.]
N. of various Sāmans, [ĀrṣBr.]