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śivā

śivā́ f. Śiva's wife (also śivī) See below


f. the energy of Śiva personified as his wife (known as Durgā, Pārvatī &c.), [Inscr.]; [Kāv.]; [Kathās.]; [Pur.]


final emancipation (= mukti), [Pur.]


a euphemistic N. of a jackal (generally regarded as an animal of bad omen), [GṛS.]; [Baudh.]; [MBh.] &c.


N. of various plants (accord. to [L.] ‘Prosopis Spicigera or Mimosa Suma; Terminalia Chebula or Citrina, Emblica Officinalis; Jasminum Auriculatum; turmeric; Dūrvā grass &c.’)


the root of Piper longum, [L.]


a kind of yellow pigment (= °go-rocanā), [L.]


a kind of metre, [L.]


(in music) a partic. Śruti, [Saṃgīt.]


N. of the wife of Anila, [MBh.]


of the wife of Aṅgiras, [ib.]


of a Brāhman woman, [ib.]


of the mother of Nemi (the 22nd Arhat of the present Avasarpiṇī), [L.]


of the mother of Rudra-bhaṭṭa, [Cat.]


of a river, [MBh.]; [Hariv.] (In the following comp. not always, distinguishable from śiva m. or n.)