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himālaya

m. ‘abode of snow’, the Himālaya range of mountains (bounding India on the north and containing the highest elevations in the world; in mythology personified as husband of Menā or Menakā [by whom he had a son Maināka] and father of Pārvatī, ‘daughter of the Mountain’, and of Gaṅgā, who, as the personified Ganges, is generally regarded as his eldest daughter), [Bhag.]; [Kāv.] &c.

the white Khadira tree, [L.]

Nom. P. °yati, to resemble the Himālaya, [Dhūrtas.]