नितत्नी (nitatnI)

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Monier Williams Cologne

English

 नि-°तत्नी॑ f.
  id.,  Kāṭh.
 

 a species of plant,  AV.
  

Monier Williams 1872

English

 नि-तत्नी,  f.,  Ved. a species of plant
 N. of an
Iṣṭakā
 N. of one of the seven stars of the asterism
Kṛttikā.

Vedic Reference

English

 1. Ni-tatnī,  ‘striking downwards, ’ occurs in the Atharvaveda^1
as the name of an unknown plant which was used as a means
of restoring the hair.
1) vi. 136
 probably 137 also refers
to this plant. Cf. Kauṣītaki Sūtra, 
xxxi. 28,  with Caland's note in his
translation
 Bloomfield,  Atharvaveda, 
61
 Hymns of the Atharvaveda,  536,  537
Whitney,  Translation of the Atharva-
veda,  383.

 2. Ni-tatnī is the name of one of the seven Kṛttikās in the
Taittirīya Brāhmaṇa (iii. 1,  4,  1). See Nakṣatra.

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वाचस्पत्यम्

Sanskrit

 नितत्नी स्त्री ओषधिभेदे “देवी देव्यामधिजाता पृथिव्याम-स्योषधे! । तां त्वा नितत्नि! केशेभ्यः” अथ० ६ । १२६ । १

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