As a deity name
Name 698 of the Ganesha Sahasranāma — Ganesha Purana (Upasana Khanda), as taught by Sage Vyasa / Lord Ganesha
As a Hindi name
प्रहर · noun · masculine
पहर । दिन रात के आठ सम भागों में से एक भाग । पहरा — Śabdasāgara
प्रहर · pra-har · s.m.
A watch, or three hours, &c., see pahar — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 258
Cited formation "प्रहर" is प्र- + हर: हर means "each", and the prefix प्र- forms excess, very, forward. CHD Basic Grammar App. I §3(14) — cited from the extracted rule table
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
a division of time (about 3 hours = 6 or 7 Nāḍikās; lit. ‘stroke’, scil. on a gong)
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Dictionary citations
pra-hara &c. See pra-√ hṛ.
pra-hara m. (ifc. f(ā). ) a division of time (about 3 hours = 6 or 7 Nāḍikās; lit. ‘stroke’, scil. on a gong), Var.; Kathās.; Pañcat.
the 8th part of a day, a watch, Kathās.
N. of the subdivisions in a Śākuna (q.v.)
prahara m. (-raḥ) A watch, an 8th part of the day, or a division comprising about three hours. E. pra before hṛ to take, ghañ aff.
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