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ketuकेतुketú us, m. (fr. √ 4. cit), bright appearance, clearness, brightness (often pl., ‘rays of light’), [RV.]; [VS.]; [AV.]
lamp, flame, torch, [ib.]
day-time, [ŚāṅkhBr.]
([Naigh. iii, 9]) apparition, form, shape, [RV.]; [PārGṛ.]
sign, mark, ensign, flag, banner, [RV.]; [AV.]; [MBh.] &c.
a chief, leader, eminent person, [RV.]; [R. iv, 28, 18]; [Ragh. ii, 33]; [BhP.]
intellect, judgement, discernment (?), [RV. v, 66, 4]; [AV. x, 2, 12]
any unusual or striking phenomenon, comet, meteor, falling star, [AdbhBr.]; [Mn. i, 38]; [VarBṛS.]; [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 Saiṃhikeya [son of Siṃhikā] which was severed from the head or Rāhu by Viṣṇu at the churning of the ocean, but was rendered immortal by having tasted the Amṛta), [Hariv. 4259]; [R.]; [VP.]
‘a pigmy race’, see -gaṇa below
disease, [L.]
an enemy, [L.]
N. of a son of Agni (author of [RV. x, 156]), [RAnukr.]
(with the patr. Vājya), [VBr.]
N. of a Dānava, [Hariv. 198]
of a son (of Ṛṣabha, [BhP. v, 4, 10]; of the 4th Manu, [viii, 1, 27])
aruṇā́ḥ ketávaḥ, ‘red apparitions’, a class of spirits (a kind of sacrificial fire is called after them āruṇaketuka, q.v.), [AV. xi, 10, 1 f.] and [7]; [TĀr.]; [MBh. xii, 26, 7.]
ketubhaकेतुभketu—bha m. a cloud, [L.]
ketumatकेतुमत्ketu—mát mfn. endowed with brightness, [AV.]
(interpolation after, [RV. viii, 56])
clear (as a sound), [RV. vi, 47, 31]; [AV. iii, 19, 6]
ketu—mát m. a Yakṣa, [Gal.]
N. of a Muni, [VāyuP.]
of a Dānava, [MBh.]; [Hariv.]
of a regent of the western part of the world (son of Rajas), [VP.]
of a son of Kṣema and father of Suketu, [Hariv. 1593]
of a son of Kṣemya and father of Varṣa-ketu, 1750
of a warrior, [MBh. ii, 122] and [127]
of a son of Dhanvantari, [BhP. ix, 17, 5]
of Ambarīṣa, [ix, 6, 1]
N. of a mountain, [Buddh.]
of a palace of Vāsu-deva's wife Sunandā, [Hariv. 8989]
ketubhūtaकेतुभूतketu—bhūta mfn. being or become a banner, [Nal. xii, 28.]
ketugaṇaकेतुगणketu—gaṇa m. the dwarfish inhabitants of Kuśa-dvīpa (children of Jaimini), [Tāj.]
ketumālāकेतुमालाketu—mālā f. N. of a Tīrtha, [MBh. iii, 8368 ff.]
ketumālaकेतुमालketu—māla m. N. of a son of Āgnīdhra, [VP.]
of a boar, [R. v, 9, 66]; [BhP.]
ketu—māla m. pl. N. of a people, [Hariv. 8227] and [8654]
ketu—māla m. n. one of the nine great divisions of the known world (the western portion or Varṣa of Jambū-dvīpa, called after Ketu-māla), [Sūryas.]; [VP.]; [BhP.]
ketumāliकेतुमालिketu—māli See °lin.
ketumatīकेतुमतीketu—mátī f. a metre (of 2 × 21 syllables)
N. of the wife of Sumālin, [R. vii, 5, 37]
N. of a locality, [W.]
ketutārāकेतुताराketu—tārā f. a comet, [W.]
ketuśṛṅgaकेतुशृङ्गketu—śṛṅga m. N. of a king, [MBh. i, 230]
of a Muni, [VāyuP.]
ketucakraकेतुचक्रketu—cakra n. a kind of diagram.
ketugrahaकेतुग्रहketu—graha m. the descending node (see above s.v. ketu), [L.]
ketumālinकेतुमालिन्ketu—mālin m. N. of a Dānava, [Hariv.] (metrically also °li)
of a Muni, [VāyuP.]
keturatnaकेतुरत्नketu—ratna n. ‘Rāhu's favourite’, beryl, [L.]
ketuvīryaकेतुवीर्यketu—vīrya m. N. of a Dānava, [Hariv. 198.]
ketuyaṣṭiकेतुयष्टिketu—yaṣṭi f. a flag-staff, [Ragh. xii, 103.]
ketudharmanकेतुधर्मन्ketu—dharman m. N. of a man (v.l. -varman), [MBh. xiv, 2154.]
ketumālakaकेतुमालकketu—mālaka m. or n. the Varṣa called Ketu-māla (q.v.), [VP.]
ketuvarmanकेतुवर्मन्ketu—varman See -dharman.
ketugrahavallabhaकेतुग्रहवल्लभketu—graha—vallabha m. = °tu-ratna, [Npr.]