Abhipadma: 6 definitions

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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Abhipadma (अभिपद्म).—a. Very beautiful; पञ्चाभिपद्मानिव वारणेन्द्रान् (pañcābhipadmāniva vāraṇendrān) Mahābhārata (Bombay) 1.187.9.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Benfey Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Abhipadma (अभिपद्म).—adj. 1. adorned with lotus-like spots. 2. beautiful in every part of the body, [Johnson's Selections from the Mahābhārata.] 46, 74. Bhrātṛ-padma-vana, n. a group of lotus-like brothers.

Abhipadma is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms abhi and padma (पद्म).

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Abhipadma (अभिपद्म):—[=abhi-padma] mfn. (said of elephants) having red spots on the skin, [Mahābhārata i, 7013.]

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Goldstücker Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Abhipadma (अभिपद्म):—[bahuvrihi compound] m. f. n.

(-dmaḥ-dmā-dmam) 1) Every where beau-tiful, beautiful in every part of the body.

2) Covered or adorned with a lotus flower; comp. padmalāñchana. [Both interpretations of this word are given by the comm. on the Ādip. of the Mahābh. v. 7013: dṛṣṭvā tu tānmattagajendrarūpāmpañcābhipadmāniva vāraṇendrān; Nīlak.: abhitaḥ padmā lakṣmīryeṣāṃ tān . sarvāṅgasundarānityarthaḥ; Arjunam.: = padmavinduyutān; both comm. mention moreover, instead of abhipadmān, a v. l. atipadmān which Nīlak. interprets in the same sense: atipadmāniti pāṭhe sa evārthaḥ, but Arjunam.: padmaḥ puṇḍarīkanāmā diggajaḥ . tasmādatiśayānityarthaḥ, i. e. ‘surpassing the elephant-atlas Padma (= Puṇḍarīka)’; Nīlak. mentions, besides, a bad v. l. atimattān.] E. 1. abhi and padmā, 2. abhi and padma.

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