gaurī́ (ī́), f. the female of the Bos Gaurus, [RV.] (‘Vāc or voice of the middle region of the air’, [i, 164, 41] according to [Naigh. i, 11] & [Nir. xi, 40])
= gaurikā, [Gṛhyās. ii, 18]; [Pañcat.]
the earth, [L.]
red chalk, [Kālac.]
a yellow pigment or dye (go-rocanā, ‘orpiment’, [Gal.]), [L.]
turmeric (rajanī), [Suśr.]
N. of several other plants (priyáṃgu, mañjiṣṭhā, śveta-dūrvā, mallikā, tulasī, suvarṇa-kadalī, ākāśa-māṃsī), [L.]
N. of several metres (one of 4 × 12 syllables; another of 4 × 13 syllables; another of 4 × 26 long syllables)
(in music) a kind of measure
([ib.]) N. of a Rāgiṇī
‘brilliant Goddess’, Śiva's wife Pārvatī, [AV.Pariś.]; [NṛsUp. i, 4, 3, 10] &c.
N. of Varuṇa's wife, [MBh. v], [xiii]
of a Vidyā-devī, [iii, 231, 48]; [Hariv.]
of Śākya-muni's mother, [L.]
of the wife of Vi-rajas and mother of Su-dhāman, [VāyuP. i, 28, 11]
of several other women
of several rivers (one originally the wife of Prasena-jit or Yuvanāśva, changed by his curse into the river Bāhu-dā, [Hariv.]; [VP.]), [MBh. vi, 333]; [VP. ii, 4, 55];
gaurī́ f. of °rá, q.v.