padmAvatI 1 An epithet of Lakṣmī. 2 N. of a river; Māl. 9. 1.
padmAvatI Identified with the modern Narwār in Mālva as being situated on the river Sind or Sindhu. The other rivers, that are in its vicinity, are Pārā or Pārvatī, Luṇa, and Madhuvar which correspond to the Pārā, Lavaṇā and ( pb ) Madhumatī, mentioned by Bhavabhūti, as flowing in the vicinity of the town. This town was the scene of Bhavabhūti's Mālati-Mādhava.