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durgā

dur—gā See (p. 487).

f. See

f. (of °ga, q.v.) the Indigo plant or Clitoria Ternatea, [L.]

a singing bird (= śyāmā), [L.]

N. of two rivers, [MBh. vi, 337]

‘the inaccessible or terrific goddess’, N. of the daughter of Himavat and wife of Śiva (also called Umā, Pārvatī &c., and mother of Kārttikeya and Gaṇeśa cf. -pūjā), [TĀr. x, 2, 3] (d°urgā devī), [MBh.] &c.

of a princess, [Rājat. iv, 659], and of other women.