naMdaH [ naMd-BAve GaY ] 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 Chāṇakya, the minister of Chandragupta; samutKAtA naMdA nava hfdayarogA iva BuvaH Mu. 1. 13 ; agfhIte rAkzase kimutKAtaM naMdavaMSasya Mu. 1 , 3. 27 , 28. 7 One of the nine treasures of Kubera. — dI An epithet of Durgā. Comp. — AtmajaH, -naMdanaH an epithet of Kṛṣṇa. — pAlaH an epithet of Varuṇa.