1. śakuni
śakuni m. a bird ( esp. a large bird, L. = gṛdhra or cilla, accord. to some ‘a cock’), RV. &c. &c.
The corpus record — Sanskrit
śakuniḥ
śakuni m. a bird ( esp. a large bird, L. = gṛdhra or cilla, accord. to some ‘a cock’), RV. &c. &c.
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Where it lives
- Chandogya Upanisad 2 · 0.43/10k
What it meant — Monier-Williams
2. śakuni
of the brother of queen Gāndhārī (and therefore the brother-in-law of Dhṛtarāṣṭra and the Mātula or maternal uncle of the Kuru princes; as son of Subala , king of Gāndhāra , he is called Saubala ; he often acted as counsellor of Duryodhana , and hence his name is sometimes applied to an old officious relative whose counsels tend to misfortune), MBh. ; Hariv. &c. ( cf. IW. 380 )
3. śakunī
N. of a female demon (sometimes identified with Durgā ) causing a partic. child's disease (sometimes = pūtanā, and in this sense also śakuni), MBh. ; Hariv.
In the wild
- śakuniḥ Chandogya Upanisad chup_6,8.2
- śakuniḥ Chandogya Upanisad chup_6,8.3
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.