As a deity name
Name 668 of the Lakshmi Sahasranāma — Skanda Purana / Sanat Kumara Samhita, as taught by Sages Sanatkumara and Devotees
As a Hindi name
महानदी · noun · feminine
विशाल नदी । जैसे, गंगा · एक नदी जो बंगाल की खाड़ी में गिरती है — Śabdasāgara
Cited formation "महानदी" is महानद + -ई: महानद means "पुराणानुसार एक नद का नाम", and the suffix -ई forms abstract nouns (fem.). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §8(14) — cited from the extracted rule table — base gloss: Śabdasāgara
Cited formation "महानदी" is महानद + -ई: महानद means "पुराणानुसार एक नद का नाम", and the suffix -ई forms 'belonging to', 'having', 'coming from' (adjectives). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §9(6) — cited from the extracted rule table — base gloss: Śabdasāgara
Cited formation "महानदी" is महानद + -ई: महानद means "पुराणानुसार एक नद का नाम", and the suffix -ई forms diminutives (fem.). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §9(6) — cited from the extracted rule table — base gloss: Śabdasāgara
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
a river, &c.
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Dictionary citations
mahā—nadī f. a river, Lāṭy.; MaitrUp.; MBh. &c.
N. of the Ganges, MBh.; MārkP.
of a well-known river (which rises on the south-west of Bengal, and after an eastward course of 520 miles divides into sev. branches at the town of Cuttack, and falls by sev. mouths into the Bay of Bengal), MW.
of various streams, MBh.; Hariv. &c.
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