Category: H

one of the vital airs, L.

a kind of ascetic, MBh.; Hariv.; BhP.

N. of a Deva-gandharva, Hariv.

of a son of Brahmā, BhP.

a man of supernatural qualities born under a partic. constellation, VarBṛS.

of a son of Vasu-deva, ib.

a horse, Naigh. i, 14

of a son of A-riṣṭā, MBh.

an unambitious monarch, L.

of a son of Brahma-datta and general of Jarā-saṃdha, ib.

an excellent draught-ox (accord. to some, ‘a buffalo’), VarBṛS.

of various authors &c., Cat.

a mountain, L.

of a mountain, Pur.

a temple of a partic. form, VarBṛS.

of one of the Moon’s horses, VP.

silver, L.

haMsI ¦ (I), f. a female goose, Mṛcch.; Kathās.

a kind of Mantra or mystical text, Cat.

pl. N. of the Brāhmans in Plakṣa-dvīpa, BhP.

a spiritual preceptor, W.

N. of various metres, Śrutab.; Chandom.; Col.

envy, malice, L.

of a daughter of Bhagīratha and wife of Kautsa, MBh.

a mystical N. of the letter h, Cat.

N. of two metres, Col.

(in music) a kind of measure, Saṃgīt.

of a Dānava, ib.

haMsa—kAntA ¦ f. ‘gander-loved’, a female goose, L.

haMsa—cCattra ¦ n. dry ginger, L.

haMsa—kUwa ¦ m. ‘swan’s peak’, N. of one of the peaks of the Himālaya, MBh.; Hariv.

haMsa—kIlaka ¦ m. a partic. form of sexual union (v.l. -nIlaka), L.

haMsa—ja ¦ m. ‘swan-born’, N. of one of Skanda’s attendants, MBh.

haMsa—gati ¦ mfn. having a swan’s gait, Vikr.

haMsa—ga ¦ m. ‘going or riding on a swan’, N. of Brahmā, L.

the hump on the shoulder of the Indian ox, L.

haMsa—gadgadA ¦ f. ‘prattling like a swan’, a sweetly speaking woman, L.

haMsa—gamana ¦ n. the gait of a swan or goose, MW.

haMsa—gamanA ¦ (A), f. N. of a Surāṅganā, Siṃhās.

haMsa—gAminI ¦ f. ‘walking like a swan’, a graceful woman, Mn. iii, 10.