Dictionaries | References श शङ्खिनी { śaṅkhinī } Script: Devanagari Meaning Related Words Rate this meaning Thank you! 👍 शङ्खिनी Puranic Encyclopaedia | English English | | ŚAṄKHINĪ I A sacred spot at Kurukṣetra. A bath in the Devītīrtha there will add to one's beauty. [Vana Parva, Chapter 83, Verse 51] .ŚAṄKHINĪ II wife of Mahāśaṅkha, a crocodile. (For details see under Mahāśaṅkha). Rate this meaning Thank you! 👍 शङ्खिनी A Sanskrit English Dictionary | Sanskrit English | | शङ्खिनी f. f. of prec. mother of pearl, [Bālar.] श्वेत-चुक्रा a partic. plant, [Suśr.] ; [Car.] ; [ŚārṅgS.] (accord. to [L.] andropogon Aciculatus">andropogon Aciculatus, Cissampelos Hexandra = , श्वेत-पुंनाग, and श्वेत-वृन्दा) ROOTS:श्वेत चुक्रानाडी a partic. vein (), [Cat.] चित्रिणी also title or epithet).">N. of one of the four classes into which females are divided (the other three being , पद्मिनी, and हस्तिनी), [RTL. 389] also title or epithet).">N. of a शक्ति worshipped by Buddhists, [Kālac.] उपदेवता-विशेष a kind of semidivine being or fairy (), [W.] ROOTS:उपदेवता विशेष also title or epithet).">N. of a तीर्थ, [MBh.] Rate this meaning Thank you! 👍 शङ्खिनी The Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary | Sanskrit English | | शङ्खिनी [śaṅkhinī] 1 A woman of one of the four classes into which writers on erotic science divide women; the Ratimañjarī thus describes her: दीर्घातिदीर्घनयना वर- सुन्दरी या कामोपभोगरसिका गुणशीलयुक्ता । रेखात्रयेण च विभूषित कण्ठदेशा सम्भोगकेलिरसिका किल शङ्खिनी सा ॥ cf. चित्रिणी, हस्तिनी, and पद्मिनी also. A female spirit, or a kind of fairy. mother of pearl. A particular vein. -Comp.-फलः the Śirīṣa tree. Rate this meaning Thank you! 👍 शङ्खिनी संस्कृतम् (Sanskrit) WN | Sanskrit Sanskrit | | noun एकं तीर्थम् । Ex. शङ्खिन्याः उल्लेखः महाभारते अस्ति noun बौद्धजनैः पूजिता शक्तिः । Ex. शङ्खिन्याः उल्लेखः कालचक्रे अस्ति noun स्त्रियः चतुर्विधेषु प्रकारेषु एकः । Ex. शङ्खिन्याः वर्णनं कोषे अस्ति see : चाकचिच्चा Comments | अभिप्राय Comments written here will be public after appropriate moderation. Like us on Facebook to send us a private message. TOP