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V. S. Apte, The Practical Sanskrit–English Dictionary. Look up any word of the Gita in Devanagari, IAST or Harvard-Kyoto, or browse the headwords letter by letter.

Entry श्येन

  1. श्येनśyenaThe white colour.

    [श्यै-इनन् Uṇ.2.45]

    1. The white colour.
    2. Whiteness.
    3. A hawk, falcon.
    4. Violence.
    5. Vedic A horse.
    6. A kind of array in battle.

    Derived forms and compounds

    • -अवपातः the swoop of a hawk; श्येनावपातचकिता वनवर्ति- केव Māl.8.8.

    • -कपोतीय

      1. Adjective (from Śibi story) sudden (calamity). करणम्, करणिका burning on a separate funeral pile.
      2. a hawk-like, id est, that is rash and desperate, act.

    • -चित्, -जीविन् Masculine falconer; Ms.3.164.

    • -पातः the swoop of a hawk or eagle; वडवे इव संयुक्ते श्येनपाते दिवौकसाम् Mb.3.133.26.

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Headwords under श

Part 8 of 10 शैवलिनी – श्येनAll parts
  1. श – शपित
  2. शप्त – शल्ल
  3. शल्लक – शाबरिका
  4. शाबल्यम् – शिक्यित
  5. शिक्ष् – शीघ्रीय
  6. शीघ्ऱ्यम् – शुषिर
  7. शुषिरा – शैवल
  8. शैवलिनी – श्येन
  9. श्यै – श्लीपदिन्
  10. श्लील – श्वैत्रम्