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केतु m. m. (fr. √ 4.चित्), bright appearance, clearness, brightness (often pl. , ‘rays of light’), [RV.] ; [VS.] ; [AV.] lamp, flame, torch, ib. day-time, [ŚāṅkhBr.] (iii, 9">[Naigh. iii, 9] ) apparition, form, shape, [RV.] ; [PārGṛ.] sign, mark, ensign, flag, banner, [RV.] ; [AV.] ; [MBh.] &c. a chief, leader, eminent person, ---10--- ; iv, 28, 18">---11--- ; ii, 33">---12--- ; [BhP.] intellect, judgement, discernment (?), 66, 4">[RV. v, 66, 4] ; [AV. x, 2, 12] any unusual or striking phenomenon, comet, meteor, falling star, [AdbhBr.] ; ---17--- ; ---18--- ; [BhP.] &c. the dragon's tail or descending node (considered in astron. as the 9th planet, and in mythol. as the body of the demon सैंहिकेय [son of सिंहिका] which was severed from the head or राहु by विष्णु at the churning of the ocean, but was rendered immortal by having tasted the अमृत), [Hariv. 4259] ; [R.] ; [VP.] -गण ‘a pigmy race’ see below disease, [L.] an enemy, [L.] also title or epithet).">N. of a son of अग्नि (author of [RV. x, 156] ), ---26--- (with the patr. वाज्य), ---27--- also title or epithet).">N. of a दानव, ---28--- of a son (of ऋषभ, [BhP. v, 4, 10] ; of the 4th मनु, viii, 1, 27) अरुणाः केतवः , ‘red apparitions’, a class of spirits (a kind of sacrificial fire is called after them आरुणकेतुकq.v. ), xi, 10, 1 f. and 7">[AV. xi, 10, 1 f. and 7] ; [TĀr.] ; xii, 26, 7.">[MBh. xii, 26, 7.]
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