शिखण्डिन्

{ śikhaṇḍin }

A Sanskrit English Dictionary

शिखण्डिन्  mfn.  mfn. wearing a tuft or lock of hair, tufted, crested (applied to various gods), [AV.]; [MBh.]; [R.]
शिखण्डिन्  m.  m. a peacock, [Kāv.]; [Pur.]; [Kathās.]
a peacock's tail, [L.]
a cock, [L.]
an arrow, [L.]
one who attains a partic. degree of emancipation, [Hcat.]
N. of विष्णु-कृष्ण, [MBh.]
चित्र-श्°   of a ऋषि or मुनि (one of the seven stars of the Great Bear; cf.), [W.]

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शिखण्डिनी   of a son of द्रुपद (born as a female [see ], but changed into a male by a यक्ष; in the great war between कौरवs and पाण्डवs he became instrumental in the killing of भीष्म who declined to fight with a woman, but he was afterwards killed himself by अश्वत्थामन्; in the [ŚāṅkhBr.] he has the patr. याज्ञसेन), [MBh.]
of a Brāhman, [Lalit.]
of a mountain, [Cat.]

The Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary

शिखण्डिन् [śikhaṇḍin] a.  a. [शिखण्डोऽस्त्यस्य इनि] Crested, tufted. -m. A peacock; नदति स एष वधूसखः शिखण्डी [U.3.18;] [R.1.39;] [Ku.1.15.]
A cock.
An arrow.
A peacock's tail.
A kind of jasmine.
 N. N. of Viṣṇu.
 N. N. of a son of Drupada; शिखण्डी च महारथः [Bg.1.17.] [Śikhaṇḍin was originally a female, being Ambā born in the family of Drupada for wreaking her revenge upon Bhīṣma; (see Ambā). But from her very birth the girl was given out as a male child and brought up as such. In due course she was married to the daughter of Hiraṇyavarman, who was extremely sorry to find that she had got a veritable woman for her husband. Her father, therefore, resolved to attack the kingdom of Drupada for his having deceived him; but Śikhaṇḍin contrived, by practising austere penance in a forest, to exchange her sex with a Yakṣa and thus averted the calamity which threatened Drupada. Afterwards in the great Bhāratī war he proved a means of killing Bhīṣma, who declined to fight with a woman, when Arjuna put him forward as his hero. He was afterwards killed by Aśvatthāman.]

Shabda-Sagara

शिखण्डिन्  m.  ( -ण्डी)
1. A peacock.
2. A peacock's tail.
3. A cock.
4. An arrow.
5. A Rishi, either of the seven represented by the stars of the greater bear: see चित्रशिखण्डिन् .
6. The son of DRUPADA, by metamor- phosis: see below.
 f.  ( -नी)
1. A kind of jasmine, (J. auriculatum.)
2. A shrub, (Abrus precatorius.)
3. The daughter of DRUPADA, after- wards changed to a male.
4. A peahen.
E. शिखण्ड a crest, इनि poss. aff.

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शिखण्ड इनि

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