मयूखिन् मयूरक

मयूर

मयूर [मी-ऊरन् Uṇ. 1. 67]
1 A peacock; स्मरति गिरिमयूर एष दे- व्याः U. 3. 20; फणी मयूरस्य तले निषी- दति Rs. 1. 13.
2 A kind of flower.
3 N. of a poet (author of the सूर्यशतक); यस्याश्चोरश्चिकुरनिकरः कर्ण- पूरो मयूरः P. R. 1. 22.
4 A kind of instrument for measuring time.
−री A pea-hen; (Proverb:
−वरं तत्कालोपनता तित्तिरी न पुनर्दिवसांतरिता म- यूरी Vb. 1., or वरमद्य कपोतो न श्वो मयूरः ‘a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush’.)
−Comp.
−अरिः a lizard.
−केतुः an epithet of Kārtikeya.
−ग्रीवकं blue vitriol.
−चटकः the domestic cock.
−चूडा a peacock's crest.
−तुत्थं blue vitriol.
−पत्रिन् a. feathered with peacock's feathers (as an arrow); R. 3. 56. −प- दकं a scratch in the form of a peacock's foot (made with the fingernails.)
−रथः an epithet of Kārtikeya.
−व्यंसकः a cunning peacock.
−शिखा 1. a peacock's crest. −2. a cock's comb.

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मयूर Father-in-law of Bāṇa and author of the SūryaŚataka composed by him to be freed from leprosy. A contemporary of Bāṇa q. v.

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