महादेव m. (
-वः) ŚIVA.
f. (
-वी) DURGĀ the wife of ŚIVA.
E. महा great, and
देव god; the epithet Mahā compounded with a substantive forms many appellatives of these deities especially; thus ŚIVA is Mahākāla, Mahārūdra, Maheśwara, &c. and DURGĀ is named Mahāvidya, Mahāsmriti, Mahāmedha, Mahāmoha, &c. &c.