m. (g. aśmādi) ‘reared in a secret place’, N. of Skanda (the god; cf. Kārttikeya), [MBh. iii], [ix], [xiii]; [Hariv. 10478]; [Suśr.]; [Kum.] &c.
N. of Śiva, [MBh. xiii, 1263]
of Viṣṇu, [W.]
of a king of the Niṣādas (friend of Rāma), [R. i f.], [vi]; [Mcar. iv, 60/7]
N. belonging to persons of the writer caste, [W.]
a horse (‘a swift horse’, [W.]), [L.]
m. pl. N. of a people in the south of India, [MBh. xii, 7559]