गौरी 1 N. of Pārvatī; as in गौरीनाथ. -2 A young girl eight years old; अष्टवर्षा भवेद्गौरी. -3 A young girl prior to menstruation, virgin, maid; स्त्रीणां सहस्रं गौरीणाम् Mb.1.221.49. -4 A woman with a white or yellowish complexion. -5 The earth; गौर्यां गच्छति सुश्रोणि लोकेष्वेषा गतिः सदा Mb.13.146.1. -6 Turmeric. -7 A yellow pigment or dye; (called गोरोचना). -8 The wife of Varuṇa; वरुणस्य तथा गौरी Mb.13.146.5. -9 The Mallikā creeper. -1 The Tulasī plant -11 The Manjishṭhā plant. -12 Speech. -13 N. of a Nāgakanyā. cf. ...... गौरी तु नागकन्योमयोर्मता Nm. -14 N. of a river; L. D. B. -15 Night; L. D. B. -16 N. of a Rāgiṇi. -Comp. -कान्तः, -नाथः an epithet of Śiva. -गुरुः the Himālaya mountain; गौरीगुरोर्गह्वरमाविवेश R.2.26; Ki.5.21. -चतुर्थी, -पूजा the 4th day of the bright half of माघ; a festival on this day. -जः N. of Kārtikeya. (-जम्) talc. -नाथः N. of Śiva; गौरीनाथं पवनतनयं चम्पकं चास्य भावम् Udb. Bh.3.123. -पट्टः the horizontal plate of the Linga of Śiva. -पुत्रः N. of Kārtikeya. -ललितम् a
yellow orpiment. -सुतः 1 N. of Kārtikeya. -2 the son of a girl married when 8 years old.
f. female of the Gaura buffalo; girl (of eight) prior to menstruation; N. of Siva's wife; N.: -guru, m. Gaurî's father, the Himâlaya; -nâtha, -pati, m. ep. of Siva; -pûgâ, f. worship of Gaurî, N. of a festival in the month of Mâgha; -bhartri, m. ep. of Siva; -vrata, n. vow of Gaurî, N. of a rite; -½îsa, m. ep. of Siva.
noun (feminine) (in music) a kind of measure (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
priyaṃgu (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
a yellow pigment or dye (go-rocanā) (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
name of a Rāgiṇī (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
name of a Vidyādevī (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
name of several metres (one of 4 10 12 syllables) (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
name of several other women (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
name of several rivers (one originally the wife of Prasenajit or Yuvanāśva) (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
name of the wife of Virajas and mother of Sudhāman (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
name of Varuṇa's wife (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
name of Śākyamuni's mother (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
name of Śrī (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
red chalk (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
the earth (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
the female of the Bos Gaurus (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
turmeric (rajanī) (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
abhra ("talc")
Śiva's wife Pārvatī (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
noun (masculine) arsenic (As2O3) (Somadeva (1999), 191)
white arsenic (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
name of a sādhāraṇarasa Frequency rank 15686/72933
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