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राधा rādhā, s.f. Name of a celebrated cowherdess or gopī, the favourite mistress and consort of Krishna during his residence in Brindā-ban amongst the cowherds;—name of the foster-mother of Karṇa (she was the wife of Adhiratha the charioteer of king Sūra);—name of the twenty-first (or,according to some, the sixteenth) Nakshatra (containing four stars in the shape of a festoon):—rādhā-pyārī, s.f. An epithet of Rādhāas the beloved of Krishṇ;—rādhā-kr̤ishṇ, Rādhāand Krishṇa; a kind of ejaculatory invocation much used by the devotees of Krishṇand Rādhā:—rādhā-kuṇḍ, s.m. 'Rādhā's pool or well,' name of a sacred place of pilgrimage in Mathurā.