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kṣoṇī

kṣoṇī́ (ī́), f. (nom. sg. also °ṇī́s nom. pl. °ṇī́s, once °ṇáyas, [RV. x, 22, 9]) a multitude of men, people (as opposed to the chief), [RV.]

the earth, [R. i, 42, 23]; [BhP. v, 18, 28] and [viii, 6, 2]

kṣoṇī́ (ī́), f.Ved. nom. du. ‘the two sets of people’ i.e. the inhabitants of heaven and earth [‘heaven and earth’, [Naigh. iii, 30]] [RV. ii, 16, 3]; [viii, 7, 22]; [52, 10]; [99, 6.]

kṣoṇī́ (accord. to some also, ‘a partic. class of goddesses or semi-divine females’; accord. to others, ‘flood, stream of water or Soma &c.’).

(f. of °ṇá, q.v.)