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कृशानु

   { kṛśānuḥ, kṛśānu }
Script: Devanagari
See also:  कृशान , कृशानन

कृशानु

Puranic Encyclopaedia  | English  English |   | 
KṚŚĀNU   The sage who stood guard over soma at the Yajña conducted by sage Kutsa. [Ṛgveda, Maṇḍala 1, Anuvāka 16, Sūkta 112] .

कृशानु

  न. अग्नि ; विस्तव . ' खाली चेतविती महा कृशानन । ' - रावि १ . १३० . ' कृशान प्रवेशेल शुष्क इंधनीं । ' ( सं . कृशानु )

कृशानु

A Sanskrit English Dictionary | Sanskrit  English |   | 
कृशानु  m. m. (fr.कृश् for कृष्?), ‘bending the bow’, epithet).">N. applied to a good archer (connected with अ॑स्तृ, ‘an archer’, though sometimes used alone; कृशानु, according to some, is a divine being, in character like रुद्र or identified with him; armed with the lightning he defends the ‘heavenlyसोम from the hawk, who tries to steal and bear it from heaven to earth), [RV.] ; iv, 27">[VS. iv, 27] ; iii, 26">[AitBr. iii, 26]
   epithet).">N. of अग्नि or fire, [VS. v, 32] ; vi, 12, 3">[ŚāṅkhŚr. vi, 12, 3]
   (hence) fire, [Suśr.] ; [Ragh.] ; [Kum.] ; [Bhartṛ.]
   epithet).">N. of विष्णु, xliii, 54">[VarBṛS. xliii, 54]
   of a गन्धर्व
   plumbago Zeylanica">plumbago Zeylanica, [L.]

कृशानु

The Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary | Sanskrit  English |   | 
कृशानुः [kṛśānuḥ]   [कृश् आनुक्; [Uṇ.4.2] ] fire; गुरोः कृशानुप्रति- माद्बिभेषि [R.2.49;7.24;1.74;] [Ku.1.51;] [Bh.2.17.] -Comp.
-यन्त्रम् (= अग्नियन्त्रम्)   a cannon; अथ सपदि कृशा- नुयन्त्रगोलैः ......[Śiva. B.28.85.]
-रेतस्  m. m. an epithet of Śiva.

कृशानु

Shabda-Sagara | Sanskrit  English |   | 
कृशानु  m.  (-नुः)
   1. A name of fire
   2. A plant, (plumbago zeylanica.)
   E. कृश् to make thin, आनुक Unadi aff.
ROOTS:
कृश् आनुक

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