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A Kekaya prince. He and his four brothers were mahārathas on the side of the Pāṇḍavas. [Udyoga Parva, Chapter 171, Verse 15] .
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शङ्ख f. mn. (
ifc. f(आ). ) a shell, (esp. ) the conch-shell (used for making libations of water or as an ornament for the arms or for the temples of an elephant; a conch-shell perforated at one end is also used as a wind instrument or horn; in the battles of epic poetry, each hero being represented as provided with a conch-shell which serves as his horn or trumpet and often has a name), [AV.] &c. &c., [IW. 403]
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a
partic. high number (said to = a hundred billions or 100, 000 krores), [MBh.]
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शङ्ख m. m. the temporal bone, temple (
accord. to some also ‘the bone of the forehead’ or, ‘frontal bone’), [Yājñ.] ; [MBh.] &c.
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