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mahiṣa

mahiṣá mf(ma/hizI)n. great, powerful, [Naigh. iii, 3]

mahiṣá m. (with supará) the sun, [AV.]

(with or scil. mṛgá, once with mṛgā́ṇām) a buffalo, [RV.] &c. &c. (considered as the emblem of Yama and of a Jaina saint)

a great priest, [Mahīdh.]

the son of a Kṣatriya and a Tīvarī, [L.]

N. of an Asura (slain by Durgā or Skanda), [MBh.]; [Pur.]

of a Sādhya, [Hariv.]

of a sage (author of a Comm. on the [Prāt.] of the Yajur-veda), [Cat.]

of a mountain in Śālmaladvīpa, [VP.]

mahiṣá m. pl. N. of a people, [Hariv.]

&c. See p. 803, col. 1.