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स्कन्धाक्ष (skandhAkSa)

 
Monier Williams Cologne
English
स्कन्धाक्ष
m.
N.
of one of Skanda's attendants,
MBh.
Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid
English
skandhākṣa, adj. or subst. m. (in Skt. once as n. of an attendant of Skanda
BR Augen auf den Schultern habend),
(1) in Mvy 〔8837〕, in a list of deformities, acc. to Tib. shoulder-eye, phrag mig, which acc. to Das is applied to a kind of spirits having eyes on their shoulders (also crab)
(2) n. of a yakṣa: Māy 〔81〕.
पुराणम्
English
स्कन्धाक्ष / SKANDHĀKṢA. A warrior of subrahmaṇya. (mahābhārata, śalya Parva, Chapter 45, Verse 60).