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mahendra

mahendrá m. the great Indra, [AV.] &c. &c. (also applied to Viṣṇu [[R.]] and Śiva [[Śivag.]])

a partic. star, [VP.]

a great chief or leader (sarva-devānām), [Nal.]

a partic. high number, [Buddh.]

N. of a younger brother (or son) of Aśoka (who carried the Buddhist doctrine into Ceylon), [MWB. 59]

of another prince (= Kumāra-gupta), [Inscr.]

of a poet, [Cat.]

of various other writers and teachers (also with ācārya and sūri), [ib.]

of a mountain or range of mountain (said to be one of the 7 principal chains in India, and sometimes identified with the northern parts of the Ghats), [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.

of a place, [MW.]

&c. See p. 802, col. 1.