pṛ́śni mfn. ([Uṇ. iv, 52]) variegated, dappled, piebald, speckled, spotted (said esp. of cows, serpents, frogs &c.), [RV.]; [AV.]; [Br.]; [ŚrS.]; [MBh.]
(pl.) manifold, different (as desires), [TS.]
dwarfish, thin, small, [L.]
pṛ́śni m. N. of a prince (the father of Śvaphalka), [Hariv.]; [VP.]
(pl.) N. of a family of Ṛṣis, [MBh.] (°nayo 'jāh, the supposed authors of [RV. ix, 86, 31]-[40]; [Anukr.])
pṛ́śni (i), f. a dappled cow (fig. = milk, the earth, a cloud, the starry sky), [RV.]; [MBh.]
a ray of light, [L.]
N. of the mother of the Maruts, [RV.]
of the wife of Savitṛ, [BhP.]
of the wife of king Su-tapas (who in a former birth under the name of Devakī was mother of Kṛṣṇa), [ib.]
pṛ́śni n. (with bharad-vājasya) N. of 2 Sāmans, [ĀrṣBr.]
pṛ́śni [cf. √ pṛṣ; Gk. περκνός.]