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Entry उलूक

उलूकulūka1 An owl; नोलूकोप्यवलोकते यदि दिवा सूर्यस्य किं दूषणम् Bh.2.93; त्यजति मुदमुलूकः प्रीतिमांश्चक्रवाकः Śi.11.64.…
1. 1 An owl; नोलूकोप्यवलोकते यदि दिवा सूर्यस्य किं दूषणम् Bh.2.93; त्यजति मुदमुलूकः प्रीतिमांश्चक्रवाकः Śi.11.64. Compare also कथमुलूकशब्द उलूकवचनः । रल्योः समान- वृत्तित्वात् । ŚB. on MS.9.4.22.
2. Name of Indra.
3. Name of a Muni (perhaps identical with कणाद, whose वैशेषिक- दर्शन is called आलूक्य-दर्शन).
4. (Plural) Name of a country and its king who was an ally of the Kurus.
Derived forms and compounds
- -कम्
  
  Name of the reed Saccharum Cylindricum; see उलप.
  
  Fat; वनिष्टुसन्निधानादुरूकेण वपाभिधानम् । (Vartious reading) MS.9.4.22.
- -जित् A crow.
- -यातुः A demon in the shape of an owl; उलूकयातुं शुशुलूकयातुम् Rv.7.14.22.
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