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hastin

hastín mfn. having hands, clever or dexterous with the hands, [RV.]; [AV.]

(with mṛga, ‘the animal with a hands i.e. with a trunk’, an elephant; cf. dantah°), [ib.]

having (or sitting on) an elephant, [MārkP.]

hastín m. an elephant (four kinds of elephant are enumerated; see bhadra, mandra, mṛga, miśtra; some give kiliñja-h°, ‘a straw elephant’, ‘effigy of an elephant made of grass’), [AV.] &c. &c.

(ifc.) the chief or best of its kind g. vyāghrādi

a kind of plant (= aja-modā), [L.]

N. of a son of Dhṛtarāṣṭra, [MBh.]

of a son of Suhotra, (a prince of the Lunar race, described as founder of Hastinā-pura), [ib.]; [VP.]

of a son of Bṛhat-kṣatra, [BhP.]

of a son of Kuru, [Śatr.]