As a deity name
Name 811 of the Krishna Sahasranāma — Mahabharata / Padma Purana, as taught by Sages and Devotees
Name 820 of the Krishna Sahasranāma — Mahabharata / Padma Purana, as taught by Sages and Devotees
Name 639 of the Narasimha Sahasranāma — Brahmanda Purana / Narasimha Purana, as taught by Sages to Assembly of Devotees
Name 416 of the Rama Sahasranāma — Padma Purana / Skanda Purana, as taught by Lord Shiva to Goddess Parvati
As a Hindi name
दामोदर · noun · masculine
श्रीकृष्ण · विष्णु · एक जैन तीर्थकर का नाम — Śabdasāgara
दामोदर · dāmodar
(dāma+udara), prop. n. Name of Kr̤ishṇa; a proper name; (lit. 'Having a rope round the belly'; Yaśodā, the foster-mother of Kr̤ishṇa, having in vain passed a rope round his body, whilst a child, to keep him in confinement) — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 502
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
‘having a rope round waist’, N. of Kṛṣṇa
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Dictionary citations
dāmodara m. ‘having a rope round waist’, N. of Kṛṣṇa, MBh.; Hariv.
of 12th month, VarBṛS.
of 9th Arhat of past Ut-sarpiṇī, L.
of 2 kings of Kaśmīra, Rājat. &c.
of a river (held sacred by the Santāls), MW.
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