sairaṃdhra m. (prob. fr. an unused sīraṃdhra, 'plough-holder'

• cf. mahī-dhra, aṃsa-dhrī) a kind of menial or domestic servant (in the caste-system born from a Dasyu and an Āyogavii) Mn. MBh. &c

• (ī), f. a maid-servant in the women's apartments, a woman of the above mixed caste ib

• a female artisan who works in other person's houses L

• N. of Draupadī (who became servant-maid in king Virāṭa's house, when her husbands, the five Pāṇḍava princes, entered his service in various disguises) MBh. iv, 77 &c. [Page 1248, Column 2]