रघुनन्दन

Tatpuruṣa compound of रघु (raghu, “Raghu; Raghu dynasty”) +‎ नाथ (nātha, “son; descendant”).

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /ɾɐ.ɡʱu.nɐn.dɐ.nɐ/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /ɾɐ.ɡʱuˈn̪ɐn̪.d̪ɐ.n̪ɐ/

रघुनन्दन • (raghunandana) stem, m

1. (Hinduism) an epithet of Rama
   • c. 500 BCE – 100 BCE, Rāmāyaṇa 7.82.9:

     अत्य् अद्भुतम् इदं वाक्यं तव राम शुभाक्षरम् ।
     पावनस् सर्वभूतानां त्वम् एव रघुनन्दन ॥

     aty adbhutam idaṃ vākyaṃ tava rāma śubhākṣaram.
     pāvanas sarvabhūtānāṃ tvam eva raghunandana.

     Very wonderful is your well-worded statement, O Rāma;
     You alone are holy of all beings, O descendant of Raghu.

   • Budhakauśika, Rāma Rakṣā Stotra 31:

     दक्षिणे लक्ष्मणो यस्य वामे तु जनकात्मजा ।
     पुरतो मारुतिर् यस्य तं वन्दे रघुनन्दनम्‌ ॥

     dakṣiṇe lakṣmaṇo yasya vāme tu janakātmajā.
     purato mārutir yasya taṃ vande raghunandanam‌.

     On whose right is Lakshmana, while on the left, Sita; in front of whom is Hanuman, I bow to that Rama.

• Apabhramsa: रहुणन्दन (rahuṇandana)

• Monier Williams (1899) “रघुनन्दन”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 860.