m. "destitute of darbha- grass", Name of a country south of the vindhya- hills (now called Berar;it was the country of damayantī-, wife of nala-;the soil was probably grassless and arid, but the absence of darbha- is said to be due to the fact that the son of a saint died of the prick of a sharp blade of that grass) etc.
m. [grassless=arid land] N. of country south of the Vindhya (with the capital Kundina) now called Berar: pl. the people; sg. king of Vidarbha: â, f. N. of the capital of Vidarbha (=Kundina);(a)-tana yâ, f. daughter of the king of Vidarbha; (a)-nagarî, f. city of Vidarbha; (a)-râga putrî, f. pat. of Rukminî; -½abhi-mukha, a. facing Vidarbha.
Occurs in the earlier Vedic literature as the name of a place only in the Jaiminlya Upaniṣad Brāhmaṇa, where its Mācalas (perhaps a species of dog) are said to kill tigers.
noun (masculine) a king of Vidarbha (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
a particular disease of the gums (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
name of a country south of the Vindhya hills (now called Berar) (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
name of a man (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
name of a son of ṣabha (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
name of a son of Jyāmagha (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
the inhabitants of Vidarbha and also the country itself (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
the interior of anything (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
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