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maghavan

maghá—van (maghá-), mfn. (middle stem maghá-vat [which may be used throughout], weak stem maghón; nom. m. maghávā or °vān f. maghónī or maghavatī [[Vop.]]; n. maghavat; nom. pl. m. once maghónas; 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.]

maghá—van m. N. of Indra (also pl. °vantaḥ), [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.

of a Vyāsa or arranger of the Purāṇas, [Cat.]

of a Dānava, [Hariv.]

of the 3rd Cakra-vartin in Bhārata, [L.]