श्रद्-धा f. af. See below
श्रद्-√ धा bP. Ā. -दधाति,
-धत्ते (
pr. p. श्रद्दधत्,
श्रद्-द॑धान;
Ved. inf. श्रद्धे॑cf. श्र॑त् above), to have faith or faithfulness, have belief or confidence, believe, be true or trustful (with
न, ‘to disbelieve’ &c.),
[RV.] &c. &c.;
to credit, think anything true (two
acc. ),
[MBh.] ;
[Kāv.] &c.;
to believe or have faith in or be true to (with
dat. , and in later language with
gen. of thing or person, or with
loc. of thing),
[RV.] &c. &c.;
to expect anything (
acc. ) from (
abl. ),
[MBh.] ;
to consent, assent to, approve, welcome (with
acc. ; with
न, ‘to disapprove’),
[Kathās.] ;
to be desirous of (
acc. ), wish to (
inf. ),
ib.;
[BhP.] :
Caus. -धापयति, to make faithful, render trustful, inspire confidence,
[RV. x, 151, 5.] श्रद्धा f. cf. faith, trust, confidence, trustfulness, faithfulness, belief in (
loc. or
comp. ;
श्रद्धया-√ गम्, ‘to believe in’, with
gen. [Divyâv.] ), trust, confidence, loyalty (Faith or Faithfulnesses is often personified and in
[RV. x, 151] invoked as a deity; in
[TBr.] she is the daughter of
प्रजा-पति, and in
[ŚBr.] of the Sun; in
[MBh.] she is the daughter of
दक्ष and wife of
धर्म; in
[MārkP.] she is the mother of
काम, and in
[BhP.] the daughter of
कर्दम and wife of
अङ्गिरस् or
मनु),
[RV.] &c. &c.
श्रद्धया n. wish, desire (
ind. ‘willingly, gladly’), longing for (
loc. acc. with
प्रतिinf. , or
comp. ),
[MBh.] ;
[Kāv.] &c.
desire of eating, appetite,
[Suśr.] the longing of a pregnant woman,
[Car.] श्रद्धाम् आख्याहि नस् तावत् curiosity (, ‘just satisfy our curiosity and tell us’),
[Kathās.] purity,
[L.] respect, reverence,
[W.] calmness or composure of mind,
[MW.] intimacy,
ib.आ a term for the fem. nouns in ,
[Kāt.] कामायनी (with )
N. of the authoress of
[RV. x, 151] (
cf. above)
प्रजा-पतेः du. (with )
N. of two
सामन्s,
[ĀrṣBr.] श्रद्धा dश्रद्-दधान &c. See
p. 1095, col. 3.