कृशानु

{ kṛśānuḥ, kṛśānu }

Puranic Encyclopaedia

KṚŚĀNU   The sage who stood guard over Soma at the Yajña conducted by sage Kutsa. [Ṛgveda, Maṇḍala 1, Anuvāka 16, Sūkta 112] .

महाराष्ट्र शब्दकोश

  न. अग्नि ; विस्तव . ' खाली चेतविती महा कृशानन । ' - रावि १ . १३० . ' कृशान प्रवेशेल शुष्क इंधनीं । ' ( सं . कृशानु )

A Sanskrit English Dictionary

कृशानु  m.  m. ( fr. √ कृश् for कृष्?), ‘bending the bow’, N. applied to a good archer (connected with अ॑स्तृ, ‘an archer’, though sometimes used alone; कृशानु, according to some, is a divine being, in character like रुद्र or identified with him; armed with the lightning he defends the ‘heavenly’ सोम from the hawk, who tries to steal and bear it from heaven to earth), [RV.]; [VS. iv, 27]; [AitBr. iii, 26]
    N. of अग्नि or fire, [VS. v, 32]; [ŚāṅkhŚr. vi, 12, 3]
   (hence) fire, [Suśr.]; [Ragh.]; [Kum.]; [Bhartṛ.]
    N. of विष्णु, [VarBṛS. xliii, 54]
   of a गन्धर्व
    Plumbago Zeylanica, [L.]

The Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary

कृशानुः [kṛśānuḥ]   [कृश् आनुक्; [Uṇ.4.2] ] Fire; गुरोः कृशानुप्रति- माद्बिभेषि [R.2.49;7.24;1.74;] [Ku.1.51;] [Bh.2.17.] -Comp.
-यन्त्रम् (= अग्नियन्त्रम्)   a cannon; अथ सपदि कृशा- नुयन्त्रगोलैः ...... [Śiva. B.28.85.]
-रेतस्  m. m. an epithet of Śiva.

Shabda-Sagara

कृशानु  m.  ( -नुः)
   1. A name of fire
   2. A plant, (Plumbago zeylanica.)
    E. कृश् to make thin, आनुक Unadi aff.

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कृश् आनुक