श्रीमद्भगवद्गीताBhagavad Gītā · in the light of Sri Aurobindo, home
Sign in
ApteAll dictionariesSanskrit dictionaryDhātuPāṇiniConjugationDeclensionInflected formsParts of speechWord frequencyTree diagramAnalyzerRootsQuarter-verse indexMemorable linesNames

कोशःDictionaries

Search all dictionaries

Apte, Monier-Williams and Macdonell at once. Type in any of fifteen scripts and schemes; the word is converted and looked up wherever it is part of a headword.

Results for शिखण्डिन्

7 entries · exact headword first

Apte Dictionary

V. S. Apte, The Practical Sanskrit–English Dictionary
  1. शिखण्डिन्śikhaṇḍina.Crested, tufted. -m. A peacock; नदति स एष वधूसखः शिखण्डी U.3.18; R.1.39; Ku.1.15.

    [शिखण्डोऽस्त्यस्य इनि]

    1. Crested, tufted. -Masculine A peacock; नदति स एष वधूसखः शिखण्डी Ubbayapada (Parasmaipada and Atmanepada)3.18; R.1.39; Ku.1.15.
    2. A cock.
    3. An arrow.
    4. A peacock's tail.
    5. A kind of jasmine.
    6. Name of Viṣṇu.
    7. Name of a son of Drupada; शिखण्डी च महारथः Bg.1.17. [Śikhaṇḍin was originally a female, being Ambā born in the family of Drupada for wreaking her revenge upon Bhīṣma; (see Ambā). But from her very birth the girl was given out as a male child and brought up as such. In due course she was married to the daughter of Hiraṇyavarman, who was extremely sorry to find that she had got a veritable woman for her husband. Her father, therefore, resolved to attack the kingdom of Drupada for his having deceived him; but Śikhaṇḍin contrived, by practising austere penance in a forest, to exchange her sex with a Yakṣa and thus averted the calamity which threatened Drupada. Afterwards in the great Bhāratī war he proved a means of killing Bhīṣma, who declined to fight with a woman, when Arjuna put him forward as his hero. He was afterwards killed by Aśvatthāman.]

    In the Gita1·17

    काश्यश्च परमेष्वासः शिखण्डी च महारथः ।

    kāśyaśca parameṣvāsaḥ śikhaṇḍī ca mahārathaḥ — And Kashya of the great bow, and Shikhandi of the great prowess, Dhrishtadyumna, Virata and Satyaki blew their respective conchs. 1·17
    • शिखण्डीśikhaṇḍīnominative singular of the masculine noun śikhaṇḍin (Shikhandi, the elder son of king Drupada).
    Source: ApteApte entry

Macdonell

A. A. Macdonell, A Practical Sanskrit Dictionary
  1. शिखण्डिन्śikhaṇḍin[sikhand-in] a. tufted, crested; m. peacock; N. of a son of Drupada, born as a girl but transformed into a boy…

    [sikhand-in] adjective tufted, crested; masculine peacock; noun of a son of Drupada, born as a girl but transformed into a boy by a Ya ksha, slayer of Bhîshma: -î, feminine; also equal for peahen; noun of Sikhandin when a girl.

    Source: MacdonellAnalyse the word

Monier-Williams

Monier Monier-Williams, A Sanskrit–English Dictionary
  1. शिखण्डिन्śikhaṇḍinmfn. wearing a tuft or lock of hair, tufted, crested (applied to various gods) AV. MBh. R.
    1. masculine, feminine and neuter; or adjective wearing a tuft or lock of hair, tufted, crested (applied to various gods) AV. MBh. R.
    2. masculine gender a peacock Ka1v. Pur. Katha1s.
    3. masculine gender a peacock's tail Lexicographers
    4. masculine gender a cock Lexicographers
    5. masculine gender an arrow Lexicographers
    6. masculine gender one who attains a particular degree of emancipation Hcat.
    7. masculine gender Name of Vishn2u-Kr2ishn2a विष्णु-कृष्ण MBh.
    8. masculine gender of a R2ishi ऋषि or Muni मुनि (one of the seven stars of the Great Bear; confer, compare चित्र-श्that the rest of a word is to be supplied) W.
    9. masculine gender of a son of Drupada द्रुपद (born as a female [see शिखण्डिनी], but changed into a male by a Yaksha यक्ष; in the great war between Kauravas कौरव s and Pa1n2d2avas पाण्डव s he became instrumental in the killing of Bhi1shma भीष्म who declined to fight with a woman, but he was afterwards killed himself by As3vattha1man अश्वत्थामन्; in the S3a1n3khBr. he has the patronymic Ya1jn5asena याज्ञसेन) MBh.
    10. masculine gender of a Bra1hman Brahman Lalit.
    11. masculine gender of a mountain catalogue or catalogues
    12. masculine gender the shrub Abrus Precatorius Lexicographers
    13. masculine gender Name of a daughter of Drupada द्रुपद (afterwards changed to a male; see a reference to some preceeding word (not necessarily in the same page)) MBh.
    14. masculine gender of the wite of Antardha1na अन्तर्धान Hariv. Pur.
    15. masculine gender of two Apsaras अप्सरस् (daughters of Kas3yapa कश्यप and regarded as the authoresses of fg-veda ix, 104) Anukr.
    Source: Monier-WilliamsAnalyse the word
  2. गृहशिखण्डिन्gṛhaśikhaṇḍinm. a peacock kept in a house Mr2icch. v, 1 Ka1vya7d. ii, 105.

    masculine gender a peacock kept in a house Mr2icch. v, 1 Ka1vya7d. ii, 105.

    Source: Monier-WilliamsAnalyse the word
  3. चित्रशिखण्डिन्citraśikhaṇḍinm. pl. "bright-crested", the 7 R2ishis ऋषि s (Marici, Atri अत्रि, An3giras अङ्गिरस्, Pulastya पुलस्त्य, Pulaha…

    masculine gender plural "bright-crested", the 7 R2ishis ऋषि s (Marici, Atri अत्रि, An3giras अङ्गिरस्, Pulastya पुलस्त्य, Pulaha पुलह, Kratu क्रतु, Vasisht2ha वसिष्ठ [MBh. xii Ba1lar. x, 98; Vis3va1-mitra विश्वा-मित्र, i, 27]) Ra1jat. i, 55

    Source: Monier-WilliamsAnalyse the word
  4. वनशिखण्डिन्vanaśikhaṇḍinm. = -बर्किण L.

    masculine gender Equivalent to -बर्किण Lexicographers

    Source: Monier-WilliamsAnalyse the word
  5. सशिखण्डिन्saśikhaṇḍinmfn. accompanied by S3ikhan2d2in शिखण्डिन् MBh.

    masculine, feminine and neuter; or adjective accompanied by S3ikhan2d2in शिखण्डिन् MBh.

    Source: Monier-WilliamsAnalyse the word