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[न रुन्धती प्रतिरोधकारिणी]

1. A medicinal climbing plant.
2. Name of the wife of Vasiṣṭha; अन्वासितमरुन्धत्या स्वाहयेव हविर्भुजम् R.1.56.
3. The morning star personified as the wife of Vasiṣṭha; one of the Pleiades.
4. Name of the daughter of प्राचेतसदक्ष, one of the 1 wives of Dharma. [In mythology Arundhatī is represented as the wife of the sage Vasiṣṭha, one of the 7 sages. She was one of the 9 daughters of Kardama Prajāpati by Devahūti. She is regarded as the highest pattern of conjugal excellence and wifely devotion and is so invoked by the bridegroom at nuptial ceremonies. Though a woman she was regarded with the same, even more, veneration as the Saptarṣis; Compare Ku.6.12; तामगौरवभेदेन मुनींश्चापश्यदीश्वरः । स्त्री पुमानि- त्यनास्थैषा वृत्तं हि महितं सताम् ॥ Compare also Janaka's remarks in Ubbayapada (Parasmaipada and Atmanepada)4.1. She, like her husband, was the guide and controller of Raghu's line in her own department and acted as guardian angel to Sitā after she had been abandoned by Rāma. It is said that Arundhatī (the star) is not seen by persons whose end has approached. Compare Suśruta. न पश्यति सनक्षत्रां यस्तु देवीमरुन्धतीम् । ध्रुवमाकाशगङ्गां च तं वदन्ति गतायुषम् ॥; See H.1.66. also].
5. The tongue (personified).

1. feminine a medicinal climbing plant AV.
2. feminine the wife of Vasisht2ha वसिष्ठ R. etc.
3. feminine the wife of Dharma धर्म Hariv.
4. feminine the little and scarcely visible star Alcor (belonging to the Great Bear, and personified as the wife of one of its seven chief stars, Vasisht2ha वसिष्ठ, or of all the seven, the so-called seven R2ishis ऋषि s; at marriage ceremonies Arundhati1 अरुन्धती is invoked as a pattern of conjugal excellence by the bridegroom) A1s3vGr2. etc.
5. feminine Name of a kind of super natural faculty (also called kun2d2alini1 कुण्डलिनी).