mahā—nadī f. a river, [Lāṭy.]; [MaitrUp.]; [MBh.] &c.
N. of the Ganges, [MBh.]; [MārkP.]
of a well-known river (which rises on the south-west of Bengal, and after an eastward course of 520 miles divides into sev. branches at the town of Cuttack, and falls by sev. mouths into the Bay of Bengal), [MW.]
of various streams, [MBh.]; [Hariv.] &c.