नेत्रयोनि

A Sanskrit English Dictionary

नेत्र—योनि  m.  m. N. of इन्द्र (whose body, after his adultery with अहल्या, was covered with marks which resembled the female organ and then were made to resemble eyes; cf. सहस्रा-क्ष), [L.]

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the moon (as produced from the eye of अत्रि), [L.]

Shabda-Sagara

नेत्रयोनि  m.  ( -निः)
1. INDRA.
2. The moon.
E. नेत्र an eye, and योनि the vulva; being covered with marks resembling that organ, through the curse of GAUTAMA, whose wife he had attempted to debauch; the sage afterwards relenting, changed these dis- graceful marks on the body of the deity to as many eyes.

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