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क्रीडनिका (krIDanikA)

 
Monier Williams Cologne
English
क्रीडनिका
f.
a nurse who entertains children with plays,
Divyāv.
Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid
English
krīḍanikā, rarely °nakā, with or without dhātrī (cf. AMg. kīlaṇa-dhāī, and also krīḍāpanikā, s.v. °naka), a nurse who amuses (plays with) an infant, regularly as one of four kinds of nurses: with dhātrī, Mvy 〔9481〕
in a cliché, Divy 〔99.26〕
〔271.20〕
〔441.23〕
Av 〔i.15.12〕 (very often)
MSV 〔i.132.21〕 and (°nakā) 〔iii.134.8〕
without dhātrī, in same cliché, Divy 〔3.13〕
〔58.13〕
Av 〔i.219.10〕
〔346.5〕
〔360.1〕, and in some other places (but less often). See s.v. kṣīra-dhātrī.