As a deity name
Name 32 of the Vishnu Sahasranāma — Mahabharata (Anushasana Parva), as taught by Bhishma to Yudhishthira on his deathbed
As a Hindi name
भावन · adj
अच्छा लगनेवाला । प्रिय लगनेवाला । जो भला लगे । भानेवाला — Śabdasāgara
भावन · noun · masculine
भावना · ध्यान · विष्णु — Śabdasāgara
भावन · bhāvan · s.m.
Creator, producer, efficient cause; founder — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 181
भावन · bhāvan · s.m.
= bhāvnā, q.v — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 181
Cited formation "भावन" is भाव + -न: भाव means "rate, price", and the suffix -न forms abstract nouns (masc. or fem.). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §8(18) — cited from the extracted rule table
Cited formation "भावन" is भावना + -न: भावना means "feeling, sense", and the suffix -न forms abstract nouns (masc. or fem.). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §8(18) — cited from the extracted rule table
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
forming in the mind, conception, apprehension, imagination, supposition, fancy, thought, meditation (˚nayā in thought, in imagination; ˚nām-√ bandh, with loc., to occupy one's imag…
Scripturally attested Verified derivationMultiple readings (10)Why this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "bhāvana" is the vocative of "bhāvanā" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
Dictionary citations
1. bhā—vana n. (for 2. bhāvana See p. 755, col. 1) a forest of rays, Ghaṭ.
2. bhāvana mf(ī)n. (fr. Caus.; for 1. See 2. bhā p. 750) causing to be, effecting, producing, displaying, manifesting, MBh.; Kāv.; BhP.
promoting or effecting any one's (gen. or comp.) welfare, MBh.; R. &c.
imagining, fancying, AṣṭāvS.
teaching, MBh.
bhāvanā (ā), f. demonstration, argument, ascertainment, Yājñ.
feeling of devotion, faith in (loc.), Pañcat.
Alternative readings
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