śā́nti f. tranquillity, peace, quiet, peace or calmness of mind, absence of passion, averting of pain (! ! ! may the three kinds of pain be averted!), indifference to objects of pleasure or pain, [KaṭhUp.]; [MBh.] &c.
alleviation (of evil or pain), cessation, abatement, extinction (of fire &c.), [AV.] &c. &c.
a pause, breach, interruption, [Hcat.]
any expiatory or propitiatory rite for averting evil or calamity, [Br.] &c. (cf. [RTL. 346])
peace, welfare, prosperity, good fortune, ease, comfort, happiness, bliss, [MBh.]; [R.] &c.
destruction, end, eternal rest, death, [Kāv.]; [Kathās.]; [BhP.]
= śānti-kalpa, [BhP.]
Tranquillity &c. personified (as a daughter of Śraddhā, as the wife of Atharvan, as the daughter of Dakṣa and wife of Dharma), [Hariv.]; [Prab.]; [Pur.]
śā́nti m. N. of a son of Indra, [MBh.]
of Indra in the tenth Manv-antara, [Pur.]
of a Tuṣita (son of Viṣṇu and Dakṣiṇā), [ib.]
of a son of Kṛṣṇa and Kālindī, [ib.]
of a Ṛṣi, [MBh.]
of a son of Aṅgiras, [ib.]
of a disciple of Bhūti, [MārkP.]
of a son of Nīla and father of Su-śānti, [VP.]
(with Jainas) of an Arhat and Cakra-vartin, [L.]
of a teacher (also called ratnākara-ś°), [Buddh.]