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सहस्राक्ष

   
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सहस्राक्ष

A Sanskrit English Dictionary | Sanskrit  English |   | 
सहस्राक्ष  mfn. mfn.th°-eyed, [RV.] ; [VS.] ; [TS.] &c.
   all-perceiving, all-inspecting, [W.]
सहस्राक्ष  m. m.N. of इन्द्र (so called from the curse of गौतम who detecting इन्द्र in a desire to seduce his wife अहल्या covered him with a thousand marks of the female organ, afterwards changed to eyes; a different legend is in [Rām. i, 48] ), [MBh.] ; [Kāv.] ; [Pur.]
   of इन्द्र in the 9th मन्व्-अन्तर, [MārkP.]
   of पुरुष, [MW.]
   of विष्णु, place or book or text' as the preceding">ib.
   of fire and रुद्र, place or book or text' as the preceding">ib.
   of शिव, place or book or text' as the preceding">ib.
   a clear sky, [VarBṛS.]
   N. of a partic.मन्त्र, [Baudh.]
सहस्राक्ष  n. m. or n. (?) of a place, [Cat.]
सहस्राक्ष  m. m. of wk.

सहस्राक्ष

Shabda-Sagara | Sanskrit  English |   | 
सहस्राक्ष  mfn.  (-क्षः-क्षी-क्षं) thousand-eyed; used figuratively, vigilant, all-perceiving, all-inspecting, all-powerful.
  m.  (-क्षः)
   1. indra. 2. An owl.
   3. BRAHMĀ.
   E. सहस्र a thousand, and अक्ष the eye: indra having been covered over with marks resem- bling the female organ, in consequence of a curse of gautama; those marks were changed subsequently to eyes by the relenting saint.

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