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सवर्णा (savarNA)

 
Monier Williams Cologne
English
स—वर्णा (आ),
f.
 a woman of the same caste,
Gaut.
past.
N.
 of the woman substituted by Saraṇyū for herself as a wife of the Sun (she is said to have given birth to Manu, and is called in later legends Chāyā
cf.
 सरंयू),
L.
of a daughter of the Ocean and wife of Prācīna-barhis,
Hariv.
VP.
L R Vaidya
English
savarRa {% a. (f. र्णा) %} 1. Being of the same colour or appear ance, like, resembling, त्वय्यारूढं शिखरमचलस्निग्धवेणीसवर्णे Megh.i.18, R.ix.51
2. of the same tribe or class
3. of the same kind, homogeneous
4. belonging to the same class of letters, i.e. requiring the same effort in pronunciation.
पुराणम्
English
सवर्णा / SAVARṆĀ. Wife of the muni called prācīnabarhis. savarṇā was the daughter of Samudra (ocean). (viṣṇu purāṇa, Part 1, Chapter 14). The couple had ten sons called the Pracetases, and they were very efficient in dhanurveda. All of them engaged themselves in obserying the same dharma (duty) and did tapas for 10, 000 years under the sea. (For details see under prācīnabarhis).
शब्दकल्पद्रुमः
Sanskrit
सवर्णा,
स्त्री,
 (समानो वर्णो यस्याः ।) सूर्य्यपत्नीछाया । इति शब्दरत्नावली ॥
(समानवर्णास्त्री । यथा, मनुः । ३ । ४ ।“उद्वहेत द्विजो भार्य्यां सवर्णां लक्षणान्वि-ताम् ॥
”)