As a deity name
Name 499 of the Gopal Sahasranāma — Sammohana Tantra, as taught by Lord Shiva to Goddess Parvati
Name 600 of the Gopal Sahasranāma — Sammohana Tantra, as taught by Lord Shiva to Goddess Parvati
Name 359 of the Shiva Sahasranāma — Mahabharata (Anushasana Parva), as taught by Sage Tandi to Sage Upamanyu
As a Hindi name
No reading on this path — this spelling has no entry in our Hindi sources, and no near neighbour is attested there either. We say so rather than invent one.
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
anything sweet (esp. if liquid), mead &c.
Scripturally attestedWhy this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "madhave" is the dative of "madhu" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
Dictionary citations
madhu mf(ū or u or vī)n. (gen. n. Ved. madhvas, madhos, or madhunas; instr. madhvā; dat. madhune; loc. madhau) sweet, delicious, pleasant, charming, delightful, RV.; TS.
bitter or pungent, L.
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