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    arjunī

    See also arjjunī.

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

    ☞ p. 90, col. 1.
    árjunī f. a cow, MBh. xiii, 3596
    ☞ p. 90, col. 1.
    a kind of serpent, (voc. árjuni), AV. ii, 24, 7
    ☞ p. 90, col. 1.
    a procuress, bawd, L.
    ☞ p. 90, col. 1.
    N. of Uṣā (wife of Aniruddha), L.
    ☞ p. 90, col. 1.
    of the river Bāhudā or Karatoyā, L.
    ☞ p. 90, col. 1.
    árjunī (°nyau, or °nyas), f. du. or pl. N. of the constellation Phalgunī, RV. x, 85, 13; ŚBr.

    Abhidhānaratnamālā of Halāyudha

    ☞ p. 32.
    arjunī;
    aghnyā gaurmāheyī surabhirbahulā ca saurabheyī ca .
    usrārjunī ca rohiṇyuktānaḍuhī budhairanaḍvāhī .. 268 ..
    2.1.1.268

    The Vedic Index of Names and Subjects

    ☞ vol. 1, p. 36.
    Arjunī is, in the Rigveda,1 the name of the Nakṣatra

    (‘lunar mansion’), elsewhere2 called Phalgunī. It occurs in

    the marriage hymn, with Aghā for Maghā, and, like that word,

    is apparently a deliberate modification. [Footnote] 1) x. 85, 13. [Footnote] 2) Av. xiv. 1, 13. Cf. Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa, ii. 1, 11, 2.