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pūtanā

f. See next.

f. N. of a female demon (said to cause a partic. disease in children, and to have offered her poisoned breast to the infant Kṛṣṇa who seized it and sucked away her life; regarded also as one of the Mātṛs attending upon Skanda, and as a Yoginī), [MBh.]; [Hariv.]; [Kāv.]; [Pur.]

a kind of disease in a child (ascribed to the demon P°), [W.]

Terminalia Chebula, [L.]

a species of Valeriana, [L.]

w.r. for pṛtanā