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शिखण्ड

   { śikhaṇḍḥ }
Script: Devanagari

शिखण्ड

A Sanskrit English Dictionary | Sanskrit  English |   | 
शिखण्ड  m. m. (cf.शिखा) a tuft or lock of hair left on the crown or sides of the head at tonsure, [TS.] ; [ŚBr.] ; [Daś.]
   any crest or plume or tuft, [MW.]
   a peacock's tail, [Vikr.]
   a kind of plant, [L.]

शिखण्ड

The Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary | Sanskrit  English |   | 
शिखण्डः [śikhaṇḍḥ]   [शिखाममति अम्-ड् तस्य नेत्वम् [Tv.] ]
   A lock of hair left on the crown or sides of the head at tonsure.
   A peacock's tail; केकाभिर्नीलकण्ठस्तिरयति वचनं ताण्डवादुच्छिखण्डः [Māl.9.3.]
   A crest; आलोकयति पयोदान् प्रबलपुरोवातताडितशिखण्डः [V.4.8.] -Comp.
-खण्डिका   the चूडाकरण ceremony; [Hch.1.]

शिखण्ड

Shabda-Sagara | Sanskrit  English |   | 
शिखण्ड  m.  (-ण्डः)
   1. The tail of a peacock.
   2. Locks of hair left on the [Page717-b+ 60] crown or the sides of the head, at the period of tonsure in chil- dren: see the next.
   E. शिखिन् a peacock or any crested object, अम् to be or belong to, aff. and the form irr.
ROOTS:
शिखिन् अम्

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