ahir-budhnyaa m. (considered as one word and therefore declinable as follows dat. ahir-budhnyāya, PārGṛ.; instr. pl. ahir-budhnyaiḥ, MBh. v, 3899; often incorrectly written ahir-budhna or -bradhna) N. of a Rudra, PārGṛ.; MBh.; Hariv.
AHIRBUDHNYA . One of the sons of Viśvakarmā. Five sons and one daughter were born to Viśvakarmā of his wife Surabhī. They were Ajaikapāt, Ahirbudhnya, Tvaṣṭā, Rudra, Barhiṣmatī and Saṃjñā. (See under genealogy of Viśvakarmā).