Sanskrit dictionary (beta)

[शिखण्डोऽस्त्यस्य इनि]

1. Crested, tufted. -Masculine A peacock; नदति स एष वधूसखः शिखण्डी Ubbayapada (Parasmaipada and Atmanepada)3.18; R.1.39; Ku.1.15.
2. A cock.
3. An arrow.
4. A peacock's tail.
5. A kind of jasmine.
6. Name of Viṣṇu.
7. Name of a son of Drupada; शिखण्डी च महारथः Bg.1.17. [Śikhaṇḍin was originally a female, being Ambā born in the family of Drupada for wreaking her revenge upon Bhīṣma; (see Ambā). But from her very birth the girl was given out as a male child and brought up as such. In due course she was married to the daughter of Hiraṇyavarman, who was extremely sorry to find that she had got a veritable woman for her husband. Her father, therefore, resolved to attack the kingdom of Drupada for his having deceived him; but Śikhaṇḍin contrived, by practising austere penance in a forest, to exchange her sex with a Yakṣa and thus averted the calamity which threatened Drupada. Afterwards in the great Bhāratī war he proved a means of killing Bhīṣma, who declined to fight with a woman, when Arjuna put him forward as his hero. He was afterwards killed by Aśvatthāman.]

1. masculine, feminine and neuter; or adjective wearing a tuft or lock of hair, tufted, crested (applied to various gods) AV. MBh. R.
2. masculine gender a peacock Ka1v. Pur. Katha1s.
3. masculine gender a peacock's tail Lexicographers
4. masculine gender a cock Lexicographers
5. masculine gender an arrow Lexicographers
6. masculine gender one who attains a particular degree of emancipation Hcat.
7. masculine gender Name of Vishn2u-Kr2ishn2a विष्णु-कृष्ण MBh.
8. masculine gender of a R2ishi ऋषि or Muni मुनि (one of the seven stars of the Great Bear; confer, compare चित्र-श्that the rest of a word is to be supplied) W.
9. masculine gender of a son of Drupada द्रुपद (born as a female [see शिखण्डिनी], but changed into a male by a Yaksha यक्ष; in the great war between Kauravas कौरव s and Pa1n2d2avas पाण्डव s he became instrumental in the killing of Bhi1shma भीष्म who declined to fight with a woman, but he was afterwards killed himself by As3vattha1man अश्वत्थामन्; in the S3a1n3khBr. he has the patronymic Ya1jn5asena याज्ञसेन) MBh.
10. masculine gender of a Bra1hman Brahman Lalit.
11. masculine gender of a mountain catalogue or catalogues
12. masculine gender the shrub Abrus Precatorius Lexicographers
13. masculine gender Name of a daughter of Drupada द्रुपद (afterwards changed to a male; see a reference to some preceeding word (not necessarily in the same page)) MBh.
14. masculine gender of the wite of Antardha1na अन्तर्धान Hariv. Pur.
15. masculine gender of two Apsaras अप्सरस् (daughters of Kas3yapa कश्यप and regarded as the authoresses of fg-veda ix, 104) Anukr.