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रेतस् n. n. (√ रि, री) a flow, stream, current, flow of rain or water, libation, [RV.] ; [AV.] रेतः-√ सिच् flow of semen, seminal fluid, sperm, seed, [RV.] &c. &c. ( or नि-√ सिच् or आ-√ धा with loc. , ‘to discharge semen into’, impregnate; रेतो-√ धा, [A.] , to conceive; रेतसो ऽन्ते, after the discharge of s° ) offspring, progeny, descendants, [TS.] ; [ŚBr.] quicksilver (regarded as शिव's semen), [L.] water, [L.] sin (?), [Sāy.] on [RV. iv, 3, 7.]
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