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keśinकेशिन्keśín mfn. ([Pāṇ. v, 2, 109]) having fine or long hair (said of Rudra [cf. kapardin], of his female attendants, of female demons, and of men), [AV. xi, 2, 18] (cf. [RV. x, 136, 1 ff.]), and [31]; [xii, 5, 48]; [xiv, 2, 59]
having a mane (as Indra's and Agni's horses), [RV.]
having tips (as rays or flames), [RV. i, 140, 8] and [151, 6]
keśín (ī), m. ‘N. of Rudra’ (see before)
of Viṣṇu, [L.]
‘a horse’ (see before)
a lion, [L.]
N. of an Asura slain by Kṛṣṇa, [MBh.]; [Hariv.] &c.
of a son of Vasu-deva and Kauśalyā, [BhP. ix, 24, 47]
([Pāṇ. vi, 4, 165]) N. of Dārbhya or Dālbhya
keśinīकेशिनी(inī), f. N. of Durgā
(gaṇa kurv-ādi) N. of an Apsaras, [MBh. i, 2558]; [iii, 14562]
of a Rākṣasī, [Buddh.]
of the daughter of the king of Vidarbha (wife of Sagara and mother of A-samañjas), [Hariv. 797 ff.]; [R.]
of the wife of Ājamīḍha (Suhotra) and mother of Jahnu, [MBh. i, 3722]; [Hariv. 1416] and [1756]
of the wife of Viśravas and mother of Rāvaṇa and Kumbha-karṇa, [BhP. vii, 1, 43]
of a servant of Damayantī, [Nal. xxii, 1]
of the daughter of a Brāhman, [Buddh.]
Chrysopogon aciculatus, [L.]
Nardostachys Jaṭā-māṃsī, [L.]
(inī), f. See kaiśiná
(ínīs) f. pl. Ved. ‘the attendants of Rudra’ (see before)
‘N. of certain female demons’ (see before).
keśiniṣūdanaकेशिनिषूदनkeśi—niṣūdana m. ‘slayer of the Asura Keśin’, Kṛṣṇa, [Bhag. xviii, 1] (v.l. -nisūd°ana).