Note: the Hindi and Sanskrit paths disagree here — the Sanskrit dictionary reading is negative (“grief”) while the Hindi reading is not. Both are shown below; read them together before choosing.
As a Hindi name
Note: the Hindi and Sanskrit paths disagree here — the Sanskrit dictionary reading is negative (“grief”) while the Hindi reading is not. Both are shown below; read them together before choosing.
मूर्धन् · mūrdhan · s.m.
The head; skull — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 1089
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
the forehead, head in general, skull, (fig.) the highest or first part of anything, top, point, summit, front (of battle), commencement, beginning, first, chief (applied to persons…
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mūrdhan m. (Uṇ. i, 158) the forehead, head in general, skull, (fig.) the highest or first part of anything, top, point, summit, front (of battle), commencement, beginning, first, chief (applied to persons), RV. &c., &c., (mūrdhni with √ vṛt &c., to be above everything, prevail; with √ dhṛ, or ā-√ dā = mūrdhnā √ 1. kṛ, to place on the head, hold in high honour)
the base (in geom.; opp. to agra; perhaps w.r. for budhna), Col.
(in gram.) the roof or top of the palate (as one of the 8 Sthānas or places of utterance), Pāṇ. i, 1, 9, Sch.
(with Buddhists) ‘the summit’, N. of a state of spiritual exaltation, Divyāv.
mūrdhan m. [muhyaṃtyasminnāhate iti mūrdhā, cf. Uṇ. 1. 156] 1 The forehead, brow. 2 The head in general; natena mūrdhnā hariragrahīdapaḥ Śi. 1. 18; R. 16. 81; naisargikī surabhiṇaḥ kusumasya siddhā mūrdhni sthitirna caraṇairavatāḍanāni U. 1. 14; Ku. 3. 22. 3 The highest or most prominent part, top, summit, peak, head; atiṣṭhanmanujeṃdrāṇāṃ mūrdhni devapatiryathā Mb. ‘stood at the head of all kings’ &c.; bhūmyāṃ parvatamūrdhani; Ś. 5. 7; Me. 17. 4 (Hence) A leader, head, chief, foremost, prominent. 5 Front, van, forepart; sa kila saṃyugamūrdhni sahāyatāṃ maghavataḥ pratipadya mahārathaḥ R. 9. 19. 6 (In geom.) The base. Comp. — aṃtaḥ the crown of the head. — abhiṣikta a. f. consecrated, crowned, inaugurated; R. 16. 81. 2 common, stock (as an instance); utkṛtyotkṛtya kṛttiṃ iti bībhatsasya mūrdhābhiṣiktamudāharaṇam. — (ktaḥ) 1 a consecrated king. 2 a man of the Kṣatriya caste. 3 a minister. 4 = mūrdhāvasikta (1) q. v. — abhiṣekaḥ censecration, inauguration. — avasiktaḥ 1 N. of a particular mixed tribe sprung from a Brāhmaṇa father and Kṣatriya mother. 2 a consecrated king. — karṇī, -karparī f. an umbrella. — jaḥ 1 the hair (of the head); paryākulā mūrdhajāḥ Ś. 1. 30; vilalāpa vikīrṇamūrdhajā Ku. 4. 4 ‘she tore her hair for grief’. 2 the mane. — jyotis n. (pb) see brahmaraṃdhra or mudrāmārga. — piṃḍaḥ a lump upon the head (of an elephant in rut). — puṣpaḥ the Śirīṣa tree. — rasaḥ the scum of boiled rice. — veṣṭanaṃ a turban, diadem.
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