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अध्युष्टवलय (adhyuSTavalaya)

 
Spoken Sanskrit
English
अध्युष्टवलय adhyuSTavalaya
m.
forming a ring coiled up three and a half times
Monier Williams Cologne
English
अध्य्-उष्ट—वलय
m.
forming a ring coiled up three and a half times (as a snake).
Goldstucker
English
अध्युष्टवलय Bahuvr. m. (-यः) Having the ringlets coiled,
wound into rings. This word occurs in the poem Ānanda-
laharī as the epithet of a serpent, to indicate that it is in
profound sleep, forming, then, three ringlets and a half
the god Śiva is likened to a serpent coiled up in this man-
ner, its half ringlet being compared to his Śakti or female
energy and the three others to the god as representing the
Trimūrti. E. अध्युष्ट and वलय.