citrā́ (ā́),f. Spica virginis, the 12th (in later reckoning the 14th) lunar mansion, [AV. xix, 7, 3]; [TS. ii], [iv], [vii]; [TBr. i]; [ŚBr. ii], &c.
a kind of snake, [L.]
N. of a plant (Salvinia cucullata, [L.]; Cucumis maderaspatanus, [L.]; a kind of cucumber, [L.]; Ricinus communis, [L.]; Croton polyandrum or Tiglium, [L.]; the Myrobalan tree, [L.]; Rubia Munjista, [L.]; the grass Gaṇḍadūrvā, [L.]), [Car. vii, 12] (= dravanti), [Suśr.]
a metre of 4 × 16 syllabic instants
another of 4 × 15 syllables
another of 4 × 16 syllables
a kind of stringed instrument
a kind of Mūrchanā (in music)
illusion, unreality, [L.]
‘born under the asterism Citrā ([Pāṇ. iv, 3, 34], Vārtt. 1)’, N. of Arjuna's wife (sister of Kṛṣṇa = subhadrā, [L.]), [Hariv. 1952]
N. of a daughter of Gada (or Kṛṣṇa v.l.), 9194
N. of an Apsaras, [L.]
N. of a river, [Divyāv. xxx]
N. of a rock, [BhP. xii, 8, 17]
citrā́ f. pl. the asterism Citrā, [VarBṛS. xi, 57]