m. (fr.kṛś-for kṛṣ-?),"bending the bow", N. applied to a good archer (connected with /astṛ-,"an archer", though sometimes used alone; kṛśānu-, according to some, is a divine being, in character like rudra- or identified with him;armed with the lightning he defends the "heavenly" soma- from the hawk, who tries to steal and bear it from heaven to earth)
Appears in the Rigveda as a mythological personage. In one verse, however, Roth sees in this word the name of a bowman, but there seems no reason to dissociate this passage from the rest.
noun (masculine) fire (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
name applied to a good archer (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
name of Agni or fire (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
name of a Gandharva (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
Plumbago Zeylanica (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
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