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hiraṇya

híraṇya n. (ifc. f(A). ; prob. connected with hari, harit, hiri) gold (orig. ‘uncoined gold or other precious metal’; in later language ‘coined gold’ -or ‘money’), [RV.] &c. &c.

any vessel or ornament made of gold (as ‘a golden spoon’, [Mn. ii, 29]), [RV.]; [AV.]; [VS.]; [Kauś.]

a gold piece or coin (generally with suvárṇa as opp. to base metal), [Br.]

a cowry, [L.]

semen virile, [L.]

substance, imperishable matter, [L.]

a partic. measure, [W.]

the Datura or thorn apple, [MW.]

N. of a Varṣa (= hiraṇ-maya), [MārkP.]

híraṇya m. a kind of bdellium, [L.]

N. of a Daitya, [MBh.]; [Pañcar.]

of a son of Agnīdhra (= hiraṇ-maya, q.v.), [MārkP.]

of a king of Kaśmīra, [Rājat.]

híraṇya mfn. golden, made of gold, [Mn.]; [MBh.]