चूर्णि

{ cūrṇiḥ }

A Sanskrit English Dictionary

चूर्णि  f. (or चूर्णी) f. the shell Cypraea moneta ( कपर्द), [L.] Sch.; 100 कपर्दs, [Uṇ. iv, 52] Sch.
   ‘noticing every minute point of difficulty’, N. of [Pat.]'s Comm. ( महा-भाष्य), [L.] Sch.
   of the old Prākṛt commentaries on Jain texts
   selection of an unanswerable argument, [W.]
एक    cf..

The Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary

चूर्णिः [cūrṇiḥ] र्णी [rṇī]   र्णी f.
   Pounding, powder.
   A sum of hundred cowries.
  N. N. of Patañjali's Mahābhāṣya on the Sūtras of Pāṇini.
   A selection of an unanswerable argument. -Comp.
-कृत्  m. m.
   an epithet of Patañjali.
   an annotator, commentator.

Shabda-Sagara

चूर्णि  m.  ( -र्णिः) A sum of 100 Cowries, the small shells used as coin.
   2. A selection or picking out of an unanswerable argument.
   2. The grammar of PATANJALA, a comment on PANINI'S grammar.
    E. चर् to go, to pass, (current,) नि Unadi affix, and उ substituted for the radical vowel, or चूर्ण् to direct, &c. affix इन् . अशेषविदुषां तर्कं चूर्णयति . पतञ्जलिकृते महाभाष्ये .

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चर् नि उ चूर्ण् इन् . अशेषविदुषां तर्कं चूर्णयति . पतञ्जलिकृते महाभाष्ये .