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    Benfey Sanskrit-English Dictionary

    ☞ p. 54, col. 1.
    alinī alinī, f. A swarm of bees

    (?), Bhartṛ. 1, 5: perhaps ought to be

    read alinām or alino, from alin

    alin, m. A large black bee.

    Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1st ed.)

    ☞ p. 86, col. 3.
    Alinī, f. a swarm of bees.

    Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (2nd ed.)

    ☞ p. 95, col. 1.
    alinī f. a female bee, Śiś. vi, 72, a swarm of bees, BhP.

    Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger Wörterbuch

    ☞ vol. 1, p. 461.
    alinī (von ali) f. Bienenschwarm (?) BHARTṚ. 1, 5.
    ☞ vol. 5, p. 1054.
    alinī Bienenschwarm BHĀG. P. 10, 54, 35.

    Indian Epigraphical Glossary

    ☞ p. 16.
    alinī (EI 26), ‘a swarm of bees’; female Jain devotees.