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dakṣiṇā?

dakṣiṇa mf(ā)n. (also ṇa, ŚBr. ) (declined as a pron. when denoting relative position [‘right’ or ‘southern’] KātyŚr. ; ĀśvGṛ. &c.; cf. Pāṇ. i, 1, 34 ; vii, 1, 16 ; but not necessarily in abl. and loc. sg. m. n. [ṇe, KātyŚr. ; Mn. ii, 63 ] and nom. pl. m. ; except, Hariv. 12390 ) able, clever, d

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  • Brhadaranyaka Upanisad 1 · 0.13/10k

What it meant — Monier-Williams

1. dakṣiṇa

dakṣiṇa mf(ā)n. (also ṇa, ŚBr. ) (declined as a pron. when denoting relative position [‘right’ or ‘southern’] KātyŚr. ; ĀśvGṛ. &c.; cf. Pāṇ. i, 1, 34 ; vii, 1, 16 ; but not necessarily in abl. and loc. sg. m. n. [ṇe, KātyŚr. ; Mn. ii, 63 ] and nom. pl. m. ; except, Hariv. 12390 ) able, clever, dexterous, Pāṇ. i, 1, 34 , Kāś. ; Śatr. ( ifc. )

2. dakṣiṇa

right (not left), RV. ; AV. ; VS. &c. ( ˚RaM parI , ‘to walk round a person with the right side towards him’, BhP. iv, 12, 25 ; ṇaṃkṛ, ‘to place any one on the right side as a mark of respect’, i , viii )

3. dākṣiṇa

dākṣiṇa mf(ī)n. ( fr. dakṣiṇā f. ) belonging or relating to a sacrificial fee, ŚBr. ; ŚāṅkhŚr.

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Sanskrit corpus record built from GRETIL sources (citations and statistics; GRETIL running text is not redistributable). Passage text, where shown, from the Digital Corpus of Sanskrit (CC BY 4.0). Dictionary senses from Monier-Williams (1899, public domain), via the Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries.