hastín mfn. having hands, clever or dexterous with the hands, [RV.]; [AV.]
(with mṛga, ‘the animal with a hands i.e. with a trunk’, an elephant; cf. dantah°), [ib.]
having (or sitting on) an elephant, [MārkP.]
hastín m. an elephant (four kinds of elephant are enumerated; see bhadra, mandra, mṛga, miśtra; some give kiliñja-h°, ‘a straw elephant’, ‘effigy of an elephant made of grass’), [AV.] &c. &c.
(ifc.) the chief or best of its kind g. vyāghrādi
a kind of plant (= aja-modā), [L.]
N. of a son of Dhṛtarāṣṭra, [MBh.]
of a son of Suhotra, (a prince of the Lunar race, described as founder of Hastinā-pura), [ib.]; [VP.]
hastínī (ínī), f. a female elephant, [AV.] &c. &c.
a kind of drug and perfume (= haṭṭa-vilāsinī), [L.]
a woman of a partic. class (one of the 4 classes into which women are divided, described as having thick lips, thick hips, thick fingers, large breasts, dark complexion, and strong sexual passion), [Siṃhās.]
hasti—nakha m. ‘elephant's nail’, a sort of turret or raised mound of earth or masonry protecting the access to the gate of a city or fort (described as furnished with an inner staircase and with loopholes for discharging arrows &c.), [Śiś.]
hastinā-pura n. (less correctly hastina-p° or hastinī-) N. of a city founded by king Hastin q.v. (it was situated about fifty-seven miles north-east of the modern Delhi on the banks of an old channel of the Ganges, and was the capital of the kings of the Lunar line, as Ayodhyā was of the Solar dynasty; hence it forms a central scene of action in the Mahābhārata ; here Yudhiṣṭhira was crowned after a triumphal progress through the streets of the city; see [MBh. xii, 1386]-[1410] : other names for this celebrated town are gajāhvaya, nāga-sāhvaya, nāgāhva, hāstina), [MBh.]; [Hariv.]; [Pur.] &c.