bāṇá m. or vāṇá ([RV.]), bā́ṇa ([AV.]; later more usually vāṇa, q.v.) a reed-shaft, shaft made of a reed, an arrow, [RV.] &c. &c.
N. of the number five (from the 5 arrows of Kāma-deva; cf. pañca-b°), [Sūryas.]; [Sāh.]
the versed sine of an arc, [Gaṇit.]
a mark for arrows, aim, [BhP.]
a partic. part of an arrow, [L.]
Saccharum Sara or a similar species of reed, [Bhpr.]
the udder of a cow (vāṇá, [RV. iv, 24, 9]), [L.]
music (for vāṇá), [AV. x, 2, 17] = kevala,
N. of an Asura (a, son of Bali, an enemy of Viṣṇu and favourite of Śiva), [MBh.]; [Pur.]
of one of Skanda's attendants, [MBh.]
of a king, [Hariv.]
(also -bhaṭṭa) of a poet (the author of the Kādambarī, of the Harṣa-carita, and perhaps of the Ratnāvalī), [Cat.]
of a man of low origin, [Rājat.]
bāṇá m. ([Śiś.]) or (ā) f. ([L.]) a blue-flowering Barleria
bāṇá n. the flower of Barleria, [Kir.]; [Śiś.]
the body, [PraśnUp.]