1 Great joy, pleasure, delight, happiness.

2 Sound.

3 N. of a son of the demon Hiraṇya- Kaśipu. [According to the Padma- Purāṇa, he was a Brāhmaṇa in his pre- vious existence, and when born as son of Hiraṇya-Kaśipu, he still retained his ardent devotion to Viṣṇu. His father, of course, did not like that his own son should be such a devout worshipper of his mortal enemies, the gods, and with the object of getting...