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nakula

nakulá mfn. (in spite of [Pāṇ. vi, 3, 75] prob. not fr. na + kula) of a partic. colour (perhaps that of the ichneumon), [TS.]; [RPrāt.]

nakulá m. the Bengal mungoose or Viverra Ichneumon (enemy of mice and of serpents from whose venom it protects itself by a medic. plant; cf. nākulī), [AV.]; [MBh.] &c.

a son, [L.]

a partic. musical instrument, [Lalit.]

N. of Śiva, [L.]

of a son of the Aśvins and Mādrī (twin-brother of Saha-deva and fourth of the Pāṇḍu princes), [MBh.]; [Hariv.]; [Pur.]

nakulá m. of a Vedic poet with the patr. Vāma-deva (°vya) or Vaiśvāmitra (°lasya vāmadevasya preṅkha m. N. of a Sāman), [ĀrṣBr.]

nakulá m. of a physician (author of a wk. on horses), [Cat.]

nakulá n. a myst. N. of the sound h, [L.]