tánū—nápāt m. (tánū-) ‘son of himself, self-generated (as in lightning or by the attrition of the Araṇis, cf. [Nir. viii, 5])’, a sacred N. of Fire (chiefly used in some verses of the Āprī hymns), [RV.] (acc. °pātam, [x, 92, 2]), [AV. v, 27, 1]; [VS. v, 5] (dat. °ptre; = [TS. i, 2, 10, 2]), [AitBr. ii, 4]; [ŚBr. i, 5, 3]; [iii] (gen. °ptur, [4, 2, 5] irr. nom. °ptā [only etymological, cf. [4, 2, 5]] [4, 2, 11]), [Hit.]
fire (in general), [Hcar.]
N. of Śiva
Plumbago zeylanica, [W.]