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kṛśānu

kṛśā́nu m. (fr. √ kṛś for kṛṣ?), ‘bending the bow’, N. applied to a good archer (connected with ástṛ, ‘an archer’, though sometimes used alone; Kṛśānu, according to some, is a divine being, in character like Rudra or identified with him; armed with the lightning he defends the ‘heavenly’ Soma from the hawk, who tries to steal and bear it from heaven to earth), [RV.]; [VS. iv, 27]; [AitBr. iii, 26]

N. of Agni or fire, [VS. v, 32]; [ŚāṅkhŚr. vi, 12, 3]

(hence) fire, [Suśr.]; [Ragh.]; [Kum.]; [Bhartṛ.]

N. of Viṣṇu, [VarBṛS. xliii, 54]

of a Gandharva

Plumbago Zeylanica, [L.]