राधा

Proper noun

राधा • (rādhā) f

1. Radha (the goddess of beauty, humanity, and kindness, consort of Krishna)

Noun

राधा • (rādhā) f

1. prosperity, success
2. (also dual) name of the 21st Nakshatra−Visakha (containing 4 stars in the form of a curve supposed to be अ (a), त् (t), व् (v), Librae, and γ Scorpionis cf. नक्षत्र (nakṣatra))
3. lightning
4. a particular attitude in shooting (standing with the feet a span apart ; cf. -भेधिन् (-bhedhin), -वेधिन् (-vedhin)), (Pracaṇḍ.)
5. Emblic Myrobolan
6. Clitoria ternatea
7. name of the foster-mother of Karna (q.v. ; she was the wife of अधिरथ (adhiratha), who was सूत (sūta) or charioteer of king शूर (śūra))
   • c. 400 BCE, Mahābhārata
8. name of a celebrated cowherdess or गोपी (gopī) (beloved by कृष्ण (kṛṣṇa), and a principal personage in जय-देव (jaya-deva)'s poem गीतगोविन्द (gītagovinda); at a later period worshipped as a goddess, and occasionally regarded as an अवतार (avatāra) of लक्ष्मी (lakṣmī), as कृष्ण (kṛṣṇa) is of विष्णु (viṣṇu); also identified with दाक्षायणी (dākṣāyaṇī))
   • c. 1100 BCE, Jayadeva, Gītagovinda
   • c. 300 BCE, Pañcatantra
9. name of a female slave
   • c. 200 CE, Lalitavistara Sūtra

Descendants

• Hindi: राधा (rādhā)
• Telugu: రాధ (rādha)

References

• Sir Monier Monier-Williams (1898) A Sanskrit-English dictionary etymologically and philologically arranged with special reference to cognate Indo-European languages, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 0876