bhágavat &c. See p. 743, col. 3.
bhaga—vat ind. like a vulva, [Viṣṇ.], Sch.
bhaga—vat mfn. See below.
bhágavat mfn. (for 1. See under bhága) possessing fortune, fortunate, prosperous, happy, [RV.]; [AV.]; [GṛS.]; [BhP.]
glorious, illustrious, divine, adorable, venerable, [AV.] &c. &c.
holy (applied to gods, demigods, and saints as a term of address, either in voc. bhagavan, bhagavas, bhagos [cf. [Pāṇ. viii, 3, 1], Vārtt. 2, [Pat.] and [viii, 3, 17]] f. bhagavatī m. pl. bhagavantaḥ; or in nom. with 3. sg. of the verb; with Buddhists often prefixed to the titles of their sacred writings)
bhágavat m. ‘the divine or adorable one’, N. of Viṣṇu-Kṛṣṇa, [Bhag.]; [BhP.]
of Śiva, [Kathās.]
of a Buddha or a Bodhi-sattva or a Jina, [Buddh.] (cf. [MWB. 23])