As a deity name
Name 828 of the Narasimha Sahasranāma — Brahmanda Purana / Narasimha Purana, as taught by Sages to Assembly of Devotees
Name 832 of the Narasimha Sahasranāma — Brahmanda Purana / Narasimha Purana, as taught by Sages to Assembly of Devotees
Name 266 of the Vishnu Sahasranāma — Mahabharata (Anushasana Parva), as taught by Bhishma to Yudhishthira on his deathbed
Name 715 of the Vishnu Sahasranāma — Mahabharata (Anushasana Parva), as taught by Bhishma to Yudhishthira on his deathbed
As a Hindi name
दुर्धर · adj
जिसे कठिनाई से पकड़ सकें । जो जलदी पकड़ में न आ सके · प्रबल । प्रचंड · जो कठिनता से समझ में आवे — Śabdasāgara cross-reference followed: दे॰ दुर्द्धर
Cited formation "दुर्धर" is दुर्- + धर: धर means "= dhaṛ, q.v", and the prefix दुर्- forms evil, difficult. CHD Basic Grammar App. I §3(11) — cited from the extracted rule table — base gloss: Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
difficult to be carried or borne or suffered, unrestrainable, irresistible, &c.
Scripturally attested Verified derivationMultiple readings (3)Why this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "durdhara" is the vocative of "durdharā" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
Gender counterpart
The kosha attests this stem in the feminine, the masculine, and the neuter — the same name serves without alteration.
Dictionary citations
dur—dhara mfn. difficult to be carried or borne or suffered, unrestrainable, irresistible, RV. i, 57, 1; MBh.; Hariv. &c.
d˚ to be administered (punishment), Mn. vii, 28
d˚ to be kept in memory or recollected, MBh. xiii, 3618
inevitable, absolutely necessary (suffix), Vām. v, 2, 51
dur—dhara m. quicksilver, L.
dur—dharā f. N. of a partic. constellation (cf. durudharā)
of Candra-gupta's wife, HPariś.
Alternative readings
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