|
क्षोणी f. af. ( nom. sg. also °णी॑स्nom. pl. °णी॑स्, once °ण॑यस्, [RV. x, 22, 9] ) a multitude of men, people (as opposed to the chief), [RV.] the earth, [R. i, 42, 23] ; [BhP. v, 18, 28 and viii, 6, 2] क्षोणी f. f.Ved. nom. du. ‘the two sets of people’ i.e. the inhabitants of heaven and earth [‘heaven and earth’ [Naigh. iii, 30] ] [RV. ii, 16, 3; viii, 7, 22; 52, 10] ; 99, 6. क्षोणी accord. to some also, ‘a partic. class of goddesses or semi-divine females’; accord. to others, ‘flood, stream of water or सोम &c.’. क्षोणी b (f. of °ण॑q.v. )
|