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ketu

ketú us, m. (fr. √ 4. cit), bright appearance, clearness, brightness (often pl., ‘rays of light’), [RV.]; [VS.]; [AV.]

lamp, flame, torch, [ib.]

day-time, [ŚāṅkhBr.]

([Naigh. iii, 9]) apparition, form, shape, [RV.]; [PārGṛ.]

sign, mark, ensign, flag, banner, [RV.]; [AV.]; [MBh.] &c.

a chief, leader, eminent person, [RV.]; [R. iv, 28, 18]; [Ragh. ii, 33]; [BhP.]

intellect, judgement, discernment (?), [RV. v, 66, 4]; [AV. x, 2, 12]

any unusual or striking phenomenon, comet, meteor, falling star, [AdbhBr.]; [Mn. i, 38]; [VarBṛS.]; [BhP.] &c.

the dragon's tail or descending node (considered in astron. as the 9th planet, and in mythol. as the body of the demon Saiṃhikeya [son of Siṃhikā] which was severed from the head or Rāhu by Viṣṇu at the churning of the ocean, but was rendered immortal by having tasted the Amṛta), [Hariv. 4259]; [R.]; [VP.]

‘a pigmy race’, see -gaṇa below

disease, [L.]

an enemy, [L.]

N. of a son of Agni (author of [RV. x, 156]), [RAnukr.]

(with the patr. Vājya), [VBr.]

N. of a Dānava, [Hariv. 198]

of a son (of Ṛṣabha, [BhP. v, 4, 10]; of the 4th Manu, [viii, 1, 27])

aruṇā́ḥ ketávaḥ, ‘red apparitions’, a class of spirits (a kind of sacrificial fire is called after them āruṇaketuka, q.v.), [AV. xi, 10, 1 f.] and [7]; [TĀr.]; [MBh. xii, 26, 7.]