मातङ्ग

{ mātaṅgḥ, mātaṅga }

Puranic Encyclopaedia

Sage Mataṅga was known by this name also. (See under Mataṅga).

The Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary

मातङ्गः [mātaṅgḥ]   [मतङ्गस्य मुनेरयम् अण्]
An elephant; मातङ्गाः किमु वल्गितैः [K. P.7;] [Śi.1.64.]
A man of the lowest caste, a Chāṇḍāla.
A Kirāta, mountaineer or barbarian.
(At the end of comp.) Any thing the best of its kind; e. g. बलाहकमातङ्गः.
ङ्गी N. of Pārvatī.
 N. N. of Vasiṣṭha's wife.
 N. N. of one of the ten Mahāvidyās.
A Chāṇḍāla lady; नताङ्गी मातङ्गी रुचिर- गीतभङ्गी Ā. L. -Comp.
-कुमारी   a Chāṇḍāla girl. -जa. elephantine.
-दिवाकरः  N. N. of a poet.
-नक्रः, -मकरः   a crocodile as large as an elephant; मातङ्गनक्रैः सहसो- त्पतद्भिर्भिन्नान् द्विधा पश्य समुद्रफेनान् [R.13.11.]
-लीला  N. N. of a medical work.

Shabda-Sagara

मातङ्ग  m.  ( -ङ्गः)
1. An elephant.
2. A man of a degraded caste, a Chandāla, and outeaste.
3. A sort of divine being attendant on a [Page562-b+ 60] Jina.
4. The sacred fig-tree, (Ficus religiosa.)
5. A mountaineer, a barbarian.
6. Any thing the best of its kind, (at the end of a compound.)
 f.  ( -ङ्गी)
1. The goddess PĀRVATĪ.
2. The wife of VASISHṬHA.
E. मतङ्ग a saint, an elephant, &c., and अण् aff. of descent or pleonastic aff.

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मतङ्ग अण्