Encyclopedias & Dictionaries | Monier-Williams: A Sanskrit-English Dictionary (p. 90) arjuna, mfn. (cf. ṛijra and √ raj) white, clear (the colour of the day, RV. vi, 9, 1; of the dawn, RV. i, 49, 3; of the lightning; of the milk; of silver, &c.); made of silver, AV. iv, 37, 4; as, m. the white colour, L.; a peacock, L.; cutaneous disease, Sāy. on RV. i, 122, 5; the tree Terminalia arjuna W. and A.; N. of a man, RV. i, 122, 5; of Indra, VS.; ŚBr.; of the third of the Pāṇḍava princes (who was a son of Indra and Kuntī), MBh. &c.; of a son of Kṛitavīrya (who was slain by Paraśurāma) ib.; of a Śākya (known as a mathematician); of different other persons; the only son of his mother, L.; (ī) f. a cow, MBh. xiii, 3596; a kind of serpent, (voc. arjuni) AV. ii, 24, 7; a procuress, bawd, L.; N. of Ushā (wife of Aniruddha), L.; of the river Bāhudā or Karatoyā, L.; (-nyau, or -nyas) f. du. or pl., N. of the constellation Phalgunī, RV. x, 85, 13; ŚBr.; (am) n. silver, AV. v, 28, 5 & 9; gold, L.; slight inflammation of the conjunctiva or white of the eye, Suśr.; a particular grass (used as a substitute for the Soma plant), PBr. &c.; (= rūpa) shape, Naigh.; (ās), m. pl. the descendants of Arjuna, Pāṇ. ii, 4, 66, Sch.
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