हलायुध

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Puranic Encyclopaedia

HALĀYUDHA   A Sanskrit poet who lived in the 10th century A.D. A mahākāvya called Kavirahasya is his most important work The hero in the great poem is Krṣṇa III. A King of the Rāṣṭrakūṭa dynasty, and poet Halāyudha was a courtier of his.

A Sanskrit English Dictionary

हलायुध  m.  m. ‘plough-weaponed’, N. of बल-राम (See above; also transferred to विष्णु-कृष्ण), [MBh.]; [Hariv.]
भट्ट   (also with , मिश्र &c.) N. of various writers ( esp. of a poet, of the author of the अभिधान-रत्नमाला, of the author of the पुराण-सर्वस्व &c.), [Cat.]

Shabda-Sagara

हलायुध  m.  ( -धः) A name of BALARĀMA.
E. हल a plough, आयुध a weapon.

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