dákṣiṇa mf(A)n. (also °ṇá, [ŚBr.]) (declined as a pron. when denoting relative position [‘right’ or ‘southern’] [KātyŚr.]; [ĀśvGṛ.] &c.; cf. [Pāṇ. i, 1, 34]; [vii, 1, 16]; but not necessarily in abl. and loc. sg. m. n. [°ṇe, [KātyŚr.]; [Mn. ii, 63]] and nom. pl. m.; except, [Hariv. 12390]) able, clever, dexterous, [Pāṇ. i, 1, 34], [Kāś.]; [Śatr.] (ifc.)
right (not left), [RV.]; [AV.]; [VS.] &c. (°ṇaṃ parī, ‘to walk round a person with the right side towards him’, [BhP. iv, 12, 25]; °ṇaṃ√ kṛ, ‘to place any one on the right side as a mark of respect’, [i], [viii])
south, southern (as being on the right side of a person looking eastward), situated to the south, turned or directed southward, [AV.]; [VS.] &c.
coming from south (wind), [Suśr.]; [Ragh. iv, 8]
(with āmnāya) the southern sacred text (of the Tāntrikas), [Kulārṇ. iii]
straightforward, candid, sincere, pleasing, compliant, [MBh. iv, 167]; [R.]; [Śak. iv, 18]; [Sāh. iii, 35]; [Pratāpar.]; [BrahmaP.]
dákṣiṇa m. the right (hand or arm), [RV. i], [viii], [x]; [TS. v]
the horse on the right side of the pole of a carriage, [i], [x]; [VS. ix, 8]
Śiva
dákṣiṇa m. or n. the south, [Nal. ix, 23]; [R. iv]
dákṣiṇa n. the right-hand or higher doctrine of the Śāktas, [Kulārṇ. ii]
[cf. Lith. dészinê f. ‘the right hand’.]