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nidhi

ni-°dhí m. setting down or serving up (food, &c.), [RV. i, 183, 4] &c.

the bottom of the Ukhā, [ŚBr.]

a place for deposits or storing up, a receptacle (esp. apāṃ nidhi, receptacle of waters, the ocean, sea, also N. of a Sāman; kalānāṃ n°, the full moon), [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.

a store, hoard, treasure, [RV.] &c. &c. (in later language esp. the divine treasures belonging to Kubera, nine of which are enumerated, viz. Padma, Mahāpadma, Śaṅkha, Makara, Kacchapa, Mukunda, Nanda, Nīla and Kharva, they are also personified as attendants either of Kubera or of Lakṣmī; cf. nidhi-datta and -pālita below)

the sea, [L.]

(with daiva) the science of chronology, [ChUp. vii, 1, 2] ([Śaṃk.])

N. of a partic. medic. plant (= jīvikā), [L.]

a kind of perfume (= nalikā), [L.]

ni-dhí See under ni-dhā.