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jyeṣṭhā

jyéṣṭhā́ f. (g. ajādi) the 16th (or accord. to modern reckoning 18th) lunar mansion (sacred to Indra), [AV. xix, 7, 3] (parox.), [TBr. iii, 1, 2]; [PārGṛ.]; [MBh.] &c. (also pl.)

f. the eldest wife, [Mn. ix, 122] & [124]

a preferred wife, [L.]

the 8th year in the Jupiter cycle of 12 years, [VarBṛS. viii, 10]

the middle finger, [L.]

a kind of stringed instrument

misfortune (personified as the elder sister of Lakṣmī, [PadmaP. v]; cf. °ṣṭha-lakṣmī́), [BhP. i, 17, 32]

N. of a Śakti, [Hcat. i, 8, 404]

Gaṅgā, [L.]

jyeṣṭhā́ f. of °ṣṭha, q.v.