bharatá m. ‘to be or being maintained’, N. of Agni (kept alive by the care of men), [RV.]; [Br.]; [Kauś.]
of a partic. Agni (father of Bharata and Bharatī), [MBh.]
a priest (= ṛtvij), [Naigh. iii, 18]
an actor, dancer, tumbler, [Yājñ.]; [Mālatīm.]; [Prab.]
a weaver, [L.]
a hireling, mercenary, [L.]
a barbarian, mountaineer (= śabara), [L.]
the fire in which the rice for Brāhmans is boiled, [L.]
N. of Rudra (the Maruts are called his sons), [RV. ii, 36, 8]
of an Āditya, [Nir. viii, 13]
of a son of Agni Bharata, [MBh.]
of a celebrated hero and monarch of India (son of Duṣyanta and Śakuntalā, the first of 12 Cakra-vartins or Sārvabhaumas i.e. universal emperors), [RV.]; [Br.]; [MBh.] &c.
of a son of Dhruvasaṃdhi and father of Asita, [R.]
of a son of Daśaratha and Kaikeyī (and younger brother of Rāma, to whom he was very much devoted), [MBh.]; [R.] &c.
of a son of Ṛṣabha, [Pur.]
of a son of Vītihotra, [VP.]
of a Manu (who gave the name to the country Bhārata), [ib.]
of a son of Manu Bhautya, [MārkP.]
of a king of Aśmaka, [Vās., Introd.]
of various teachers and authors (esp. of an ancient Muni supposed author of a manual of the dramatic art called Nāṭya-śāstra or Bharata-śāstra)
= Jaḍabharata (q.v.), [A.]
= Bharata-mallīka (below)
pl. ‘the descendants of Bharata’, N. of a tribe, [RV.] &c. &c.
bharatá n. pl. N. of a partic. Varṣa, [L.]