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senā

sénā f. (fr. √ 2. si) a missile, dart, spear, [RV.]; [AV.]

N. of Indra's wife (or his thunderbolt so personified), [TS.]; [AitBr.]; [Vait.]

an army, armament, battle-array, armed force (also personified as wife of Kārttikeya; ifc. also n(sena). ), [RV.] &c. &c.

a small army (consisting of 3 elephants, 3 chariots, 9 horse, and 15 foot), [L.]

any drilled troop or band or body of men, [Bālar.]

a kind of title or addition to the names of persons (also names of courtezans), [Sāh.] (cf. [Pāṇ. iv, 1, 152] &c.)

N. of a courtezan (abridged fr. kubera-senā), [HPariś.]

of the mother of Śambhava (the third Arhat of the present Avasarpiṇī), [L.]