As a deity name
Name 203 of the Gayatri Sahasranāma — Devi Bhagavata Purana, as taught by Sages
As a Hindi name
गान्धारी · gāndhārī · s.f.
A princess of the Gāndhāris (esp. the wife of Dhr̤ita-rāshṭra) — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 893
Cited formation "गान्धारी" is गान्धार + -ई: गान्धार means "The third of the seven primary notes of music", and the suffix -ई forms abstract nouns (fem.). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §8(14) — cited from the extracted rule table — base gloss: Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago
Cited formation "गान्धारी" is गान्धार + -ई: गान्धार means "The third of the seven primary notes of music", and the suffix -ई forms 'belonging to', 'having', 'coming from' (adjectives). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §9(6) — cited from the extracted rule table — base gloss: Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago
Cited formation "गान्धारी" is गान्धार + -ई: गान्धार means "The third of the seven primary notes of music", and the suffix -ई forms diminutives (fem.). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §9(6) — cited from the extracted rule table — base gloss: Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
(, Vārtt. 4, ) a princess of the Gāndhāris (esp. the wife of Dhṛtarāṣṭra)
Scripturally attested Verified derivationWhy this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "gāndhārī" is the nominative dual of "gāndhāri" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
Dictionary citations
gāndhārī (ī), f. (Pāṇ. iv, 1, 14, Vārtt. 4, Pat.) a princess of the Gāndhāris (esp. the wife of Dhṛtarāṣṭra), MBh.; Hariv.; BhP. i, ix
N. of a Vidyā-devī, MBh. iii, 14562
(fulfilling the commands of the twenty-first Arhat of the present Avasarpiṇī, Jain.)
(in music) N. of a Rāgiṇī
Alhagi Maurorum, L.
gāndhāri m. = ˚reya, MBh. ii f., v, vii, 3457;
gāndhāri m. pl. (Pāṇ. iv, 1, 169; iv, 2, 52, Vārtt. 2) N. of a people (also called Gandhāras or Gāndhāras), MBh. viii, 2135.
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