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दक्षिण m. mf(आ)n. (also °ण॑, [ŚBr.] ) (declined as a pron. when denoting relative position [‘right’ or, ‘southern’] KātyŚr.; [ĀśvGṛ.] &c.; cf. [Pāṇ. 1-1, 34; 7-1, 16] ; but not necessarily in abl. and loc. sg. m.n. [°णे, KātyŚr.; [Mn. ii, 63] ] and nom. pl. m.; except, [Hariv. 12390] ) able, clever, dexterous, [Pāṇ. 1-1, 34] ; [Kāś.] ; [Śatr.] (ifc. ) °णं परी right (not left), [RV.] ; [AV.] ; [VS.] &c. (, ‘to walk round a person with the right side towards him’ [BhP. iv, 12, 25] ; °णं√ कृ, ‘to place any one on the right side as a mark of respect’, i, viii) south, southern (as being on the right side of a person looking eastward), situated to the south, turned or directed southward, [AV.] ; [VS.] &c. coming from south (wind), [Suśr.] ; [Ragh. iv, 8] आम्नाय (with ) the southern sacred text (of the तान्त्रिकs), [Kulârṇ. iii] straightforward, candid, sincere, pleasing, compliant, [MBh. iv, 167] ; [R.] ; [Śak. iv, 18] ; [Sāh. iii, 35] ; [Pratāpar.] ; [BrahmaP.] दक्षिण m. m. the right (hand or arm), [RV. i, viii, x] ; [TS. v] the horse on the, right side of the pole of a carriage, i, x; [VS. ix, 8] शिव दक्षिण n. m. or n. the south, [Nal. ix, 23] ; [R. iv] दक्षिण n. n. the righthand or higher doctrine of the शाक्तs, [Kulârṇ. ii] दक्षिण f. [cf. Lith. dészinêf. ‘the right hand.’]
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