jyéṣṭhā́ f. (g. ajādi) the 16th (or accord. to modern reckoning 18th) lunar mansion (sacred to Indra), [AV. xix, 7, 3] (parox.), [TBr. iii, 1, 2]; [PārGṛ.]; [MBh.] &c. (also pl.)
f. the eldest wife, [Mn. ix, 122] & [124]
a preferred wife, [L.]
the 8th year in the Jupiter cycle of 12 years, [VarBṛS. viii, 10]
the middle finger, [L.]
a kind of stringed instrument
misfortune (personified as the elder sister of Lakṣmī, [PadmaP. v]; cf. °ṣṭha-lakṣmī́), [BhP. i, 17, 32]