[naṃd-bhāve ghañ] 1 Happiness, pleasure, joy.

2 A kind of lute (11 inches long).

3 A frog.

4 N. of Viṣṇu.

5 N. of a cowherd, husband of Yaśodā and foster-father of Kṛṣṇa (to whose care the child was committed when Kaṃsa wanted to destroy it).

6 N. of the founder of the Nanda dynasty; or of nine brother-kings of Pāṭaliputra killed by the machinations of Chā- ṇakya, the minister of Chandra- gupta; samutkhātā...