कालीयकः कम् A species of aloe wood. -2 A kind of turmeric. -3 Yellow sandal. ... गात्राणि कालीयकचर्चितानि Ṛs.4.5. Here comm. मणिराम says, 'कालीयकेन जायकेन. -4 A dark kind of sandal wood. -5 Saffron; कालीयक- क्षोदविलेपनश्रियम् Śi.12.14.
noun (feminine) a form of Durgā (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
a kind of clay (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
a row or succession of black clouds (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
a worm or animalcule generated in the acetous fermentation of milk (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
abuse (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
Bignonia suaveolens (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
black colour (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
censure (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
defamation (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
Indigofera tinctoria Linn.
Ipomoea Turpethum (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
ink or blacking (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
name of a female evil spirit (mother of the Kālakeyas) (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
name of a river (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
name of Satyavatī (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
night (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
one of the Mātṛs or divine mothers (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
one of the seven tongues or flames of fire (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
one of the sixteen Vidyādevīs (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
the plant Kālāñjanī (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
the wife of king Śāntanu and mother of Vyāsa or Kṛṣṇadvaipāyana (after her marriage she had a son Vicitravīrya) (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
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noun (feminine) name of a goddess (later a form of Durgā) (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
name of a plant (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
name of a village on the right bank of the Ganges (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
name of an attendant of Devī (K.R. von Kooji (1972), 51)
name of one of the Mātṛs attending on Skanda (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
noun (feminine) (with Jainas) of one of the 16 Vidyādevīs (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
name of a goddess who executed the commands of the 5th Arhat of the present Avasarpiṇī (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
name of Durgā in her terrific form (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
name of one of Durgā's attendants (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
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