Bagavat a. 1 Glorious, illustrious. 2 Revered, venerable, divine, holy. (an epithet applied to gods, demigods and other holy or respectable personages); aTa BagavAn kuSalI kASyapaH Ś. 5 ; BagavanparavAnayaM janaH R. 8. 81 : so BagavAn vAsudevaH &c. 3 Fortunate ( Ved. ). — m. 1 god, A deity. 2 An epithet of Viṣṇu. 3 Of Śiva. 4 Of Jina. 5 Of Buddha. Comp. — gItA N. of a celebrated sacred work (it is an episode of the great Bhārata and purports to be a dialogue between Kṛṣṇa and Arjuna).