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Entry माधवी

माधवीmādhavī1 Candied sugar.
1. 1 Candied sugar.
2. A kind of drink made from honey.
3. The spring-creeper (वारसन्ती), with white fragrant flowers; पत्राणामिव शोषणेन मरुता स्पृष्टा लता माधवी Ś.3.9; Me.8.
4. The sacred basil.
5. The earth (also with देवी); तथा मे माधवी देवी विवरं दातुमर्हति Rām. 7.97.14-16.
6. A procuress, bawd.
7. Affluence in cattle.
8. (In music) A particular Rāginī -Compound
Derived forms and compounds
- -मण़्डपः, -पम् a bower formed of spring flowers.
- -लता the spring creeper.
- -वनम् a grove of Mādhavī creepers.
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