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Puranic Encyclopaedia

HAIMAVATA   A region north of the Himālayas made famous in the Purāṇas. Śukabrahmarṣi on his way from Mahāmeru to Mithilāpurī crossed this region. [Śānti Parva, Chapter 325, Verse 14] .

हिन्दी (hindi) WN

See : मोती, हिमालयी

प्राचीन चरित्रकोश

हैमवत n.  एक यक्ष, जो मणिवर एवं पुण्यजनी के पुत्रों में से एक था ।

A Sanskrit English Dictionary

हैमवत  mfn.  mf( ई॑)n. ( fr. हिम-वत्) belonging to or situated or growing on or bred in or coming or flowing from the हिमालय mountains, [AV.] &c. &c.
snowy, covered with snow, [MW.]
हैमवत  m.  m. a kind of vegetable poison, [L.]
a kind of demon, [MānGṛ.]
pl. the inhabitants of the हिमालय mountains, [MBh.]; [Hariv.]
N. of a school, [Buddh.]
हैमवत  n.  n. a pearl, [L.]
N. of a वर्ष, [MBh.]; [Śatr.]

The Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary

हैमवत [haimavata] a.  a. (-ती f.) [हिमवतो अदूरभवो देशः तस्येदं वा अण्]
Snowy.
Flowing from the snowy, i. e. Himālaya mountain; आनन्दशीतामिव बाष्पवृष्टिं हिमस्रुतिं हैमवतीं ससर्ज [R.16.44.]
Bred in, belonging to, or situated on, the Himālaya mountain; यद्यच्चक्रे महाबाहुस्तस्मिन् हैमवते गिरौ [Mb.3.16.4;] स्थाण्वाश्रमं हैमवतं जगाम [Ku.3.23;2.67.] -तः A kind of poison.
-तम्   Bhāratavarṣa or India.

Shabda-Sagara

हैमवत  n.  ( -तं) BHĀRATA-VARSHA or India.
 m.  ( -तः) A sort of poison.
 f.  ( -ती)
1. PĀRVATĪ.
2. Chebulic myrobalan.
3. A medicinal kind of moon-plant.
4. A white kind of Orris root.
5. A tawny grape.
6. The Ganges.
 f.  ( -ती) Adj.
1. Flowing from the Himālaya mountain. 2. Bred in or belonging to the Himālaya mountain.
3. Snowy.
E. हिमबत् the snowy mountains skirting India, अण् aff., fem. aff. ङीप् .

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हिमबत् अण् ङीप् .