m. of a son of drupada- (born as a female [see śikhaṇḍinī-],but changed into a male by a yakṣa-;in the great war between kaurava-s and pāṇḍava-s he became instrumental in the killing of bhīṣma- who declined to fight with a woman, but he was afterwards killed himself by aśvatthāman-;in the he has the patronymicyājñasena-)
शिखण्डः [शिखाममति अम्-ड् तस्य नेत्वम् Tv.] 1 A lock of hair left on the crown or sides of the head at tonsure. -2 A peacock's tail; केकाभिर्नीलकण्ठस्तिरयति वचनं ताण्डवादुच्छिखण्डः Māl.9.3. -3 A crest; आलोकयति पयोदान् प्रबलपुरोवातताडितशिखण्डः V.4.8. -Comp. -खण्डिका the चूडाकरण ceremony; Hch.1.
शिखण्डकः [शिखण्ड इव-कन्] 1 A lock of hair left on the crown of the head at tonsure. -2 Locks or tufts of hair left on the sides of the head; (these are three or five in the case of the Kṣatriyas); कुवलयदलश्यामस्निग्धः शिखण्डकमण्डनः U.4.19. -3 A crest, tuft, plume. -4 A peacock's tail. -5 The fleshy part of the body below the buttocks. -6 (With Śaivas) One who attains a particular degree of emancipation; also शिखण्डिक.
शिखण्डिन् a. [शिखण्डो$स्त्यस्य इनि] Crested, tufted. -m. A peacock; नदति स एष वधूसखः शिखण्डी U.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 N. of Viṣṇu. -7 N. 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.]
शिखण्डिनी 1 A pea-hen; बर्हाणामपरशिखण्डिनीं भरेण । आलोक्य व्यवदधतं पुरो मयूरम् ॥ Śi. 8.11. -2 A kind of jasmine. -3 N. of the daughter of Drupada; see शिखण्डिन् above.
शिखरः रम् [शिखा अस्त्यस्य-अरच् आलोपः] 1 The top, summit, or peak of a mountain; जगाम गौरी शिखरं शिखण्डिमत् Ku.5.7,4; Me.18. -2 The top of a tree. -3 Crest, tuft. -4 The point or edge of a sword. -5 Top, peak, point in general. -6 The arm-pit. -7 Bristling of the hair. -8 The bud of the Arabian jasmine. -9 A kind of ruby-like gem. -रा N. of a plant. (मूर्वा). -Comp. -वासिनी an epithet of Durgā.
शिखरिणी 1 An excellent woman. -2 A dish of curds and sugar with spices. -3 A line of hair extending across the navel. -4 A kind of vine. -5 N. of a plant (मूर्वा). -6 Arabian jasmine. -7 N. of a metre.
विशिख a. Crownless, crestless, pointless. -खः 1 An arrow; माधव मनसिजविशिखभयादिव भावनया त्वयि लीना Gīt.4; R.5.5; Mv.2.38. -2 A kind of reed. -3 An iron crow. -4 (In Math.) A versed sine.
a. tufted, crested; m. peacock; N. of a son of Drupada, born as a girl but transformed into a boy by a Ya ksha, slayer of Bhîshma: -î, f. peahen; N. of Sikhandin when a girl.
a. lacking a top-knot; bald; blunt (arrow); flameless (fire); m. blunt arrow; arrow: â, f. street: -½antara, n. (interior of a) street: â-ni½ati pat, traverse the streets; -siras, a.headless; topless: -ka, a. headless; -si-sâs-ishu, des. a. prepared to slaughter; -si-sram-ishu, des. a. wishing to rest; -sishta, pp. √ sish: -tâ, f. distinction, excellence, superiority, -tva, n. id.; difference, distinction;-sishta-varna, a. of choice colour; -sishta½advaita, n. distinct entity, entity with attributes: -vâda, m. doctrine of an entity with attributes; -sîrna, pp. √ srî, scattered, trampled upon etc.: -tâ, f. crumbling condition, -mûrti, a. having his body destroyed (Kâma); (ví)-sîrshan, a. (nî) headless; -sîla, a. ill-behaved, badlyconducted.
noun (masculine neuter) a point (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
a ruby-like gem (of a bright red colour said to resemble ripe pomegranate seed) (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
edge or point (of a sword) (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
end (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
erection of the hair of the body (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
name of a mountain in the south of lake Mānasa
name of a mythical weapon (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
peak (of a mountain) (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
pinnacle (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
spire (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
the arm-pit (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
the bud of the Arabian jasmine (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
top or summit (of a tree) (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
turret (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
noun (masculine) Achyranthes Aspera (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
Andropogon Bicolor (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
a hill-post (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
a kind of antelope (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
a particular parasitical plant (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
a peaked mountain (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
a tree (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
any mountain (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
name of a mountain (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
Parra Jacana or Goensis (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
stronghold (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
the resin of Boswellia Thurifera (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
adjective crested (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
peaked (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
pointed (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
resembling the buds of the Arabian jasmine (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
tufted (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
noun (feminine) Arabian jasmine (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
a dish of curds and sugar with spices (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
a kind of Atyaṣṭi metre (four times) (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
a kind of vine or grape (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
a line of hair extending across the navel (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
an eminent or excellent woman (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
Jasminum Sambac (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
Sanseviera Roxburghiana (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
noun (feminine) name of a mythical club (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
Sanseviera Roxburghiana (a plant from the fibres of which bow-strings are made) (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
[rel.] name of a Śakti of Śiva Frequency rank 67554/72933
noun (masculine) a kind of plant (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
a peacock's tail (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
a tuft or lock of hair left on the crown or sides of the head at tonsure (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
any crest or plume or tuft (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
noun (masculine) (with mystic Śaivas) one who attains a particular degree of emancipation (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
a curl or ringlet (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
a peacock's tail (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
a tuft or lock of hair (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
the fleshy parts of the body below the buttocks (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
three or five locks left on the side of the head (esp. in men of the military class) (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
noun (masculine) a cock (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
a peacock (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
a peacock's tail (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
an arrow (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
name of a Brāhman (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
name of a mountain (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
name of a son of Drupada (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
name of a Ṛṣi or Muni (one of the seven stars of the Great Bear) (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
name of Viṣṇu-Kṛṣṇa (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
one who attains a particular degree of emancipation (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
adjective crested (applied to various gods) (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
tufted (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
wearing a tuft or lock of hair (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
noun (feminine) a pea-hen (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
name of a daughter of Drupada (afterwards changed to a male) (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
name of the wite of Antardhāna (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
name of two Apsaras (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
the shrub Abrus Precatorius (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
noun (feminine) Abrus Precatorius (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
a lock on the crown of the head (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
name of the mother of Havidhāna (?)
yellow jasmine (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
noun (masculine) a lion (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
name of a Gandharva (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
name of a Śāṃkhya teacher (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
name of an attendant of Śiva (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
noun (masculine) a sort of Śara or reed (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
a spear (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
a versed sine (śara) (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
an arrow (in general) (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
an iron crow (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
javelin (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
Saccharum sara Roxb. Frequency rank 3431/72933
adjective bald (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
blunt (as an arrow) (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
devoid of the top-knot or tuft of hair (left on the head after tonsure) (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
flameless (as fire) (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
pointless (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
tailless (as a comet) (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
unfeathered (as an arrow) (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
weak (?) (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
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