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नीराजनं (nIrAjanaM)

 
Apte 1890
English
नीराजनं,
ना 1 Lustration of arms, a kind of military and religious ceremony performed by kings or generals of armies in the month of Āśvina before they took the field
(it was, so to say, a general purification of the king's Purohita, the ministers, and all the various component parts of the army, together with the arms and implements of war, by means of sacred Mantras)
R. 4. 25, 17. 12
N. 1. 144.
2 Waving lights before an idol as an act of adoration.
शब्दकल्पद्रुमः
Sanskrit
नीराजनं,
क्ली,
(राज दीप्तौ + ल्युट् ।नितरां राजनं यत्र
निर्+ राज् + णिच् + “ण्यासश्रन्थो युच् ।” ।३ १०७ इति भावे युच् ।) वाहनायुधादे-र्निःशेषेण राजनं यत्र सा नीराजना नीरस्यशान्त्युदकस्य अजनं क्षेपो यत्र सा नीराजनावा इत्यमरटीकायां भरतः
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