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श्रद्दधाति
श्रद्दधाति
Sanskrit
Verb
श्रद्दधाति • (śrad-dadhāti) (root śrad-√dhā, P, Ā)
- to have faith or faithfulness, have belief or confidence, believe, be true or trustful (RV. etc.)
- with न (na) — to disbelieve, etc.
- to credit, think anything true (+two accusatives) (MBh., Kāv. etc.)
- to believe or have faith in or be true to (with dative, and in later language with genitive of thing or person, or with locative of thing) (RV. etc.)
- to expect anything (+accusative) from (+ablative) (MBh.)
- to consent, assent to, approve, welcome (with accusative; with न (na), "to disapprove") (Kathās.)
- to be desirous of (accusative), wish to (infinitive) (Kathās., BhP.)
- (causative) to make faithful, render trustful , inspire confidence (RV. X, 151, 5.)
References
- Sir Monier Monier-Williams (1898) A Sanskrit-English dictionary etymologically and philologically arranged with special reference to cognate Indo-European languages, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 1095