शूर्पः [śūrpḥ] र्पम् [rpam] र्पम् (शॄ-पः ऊश्च नित्
[Uṇ.3.26] ) A winnowing-basket;
[Ms.5.117.] -र्पः A measure of two Droṇas. -Comp.
-कर्णः an elephant.
-खारी a kind of measure (= 16 द्रोणs).
-णखा (for नखा) 'having finger-nails like winnowing-baskets', N. of a sister of Rāvaṇa. [She was attracted by the beauty of Rāma and solicited him to marry her. But he said that as he had already got a wife she had better go to Lakṣmaṇa and try him. But he too rejected her, and back she came to Rāma. This circumstance excited Sītā's laughter, and the revengeful demoness, feeling herself grossly insulted, assumed a hideous form and threatened to eat her up. But Lakṣmaṇa cut off her ears and nose, and thus doubly deformed her; see
[R.12.32-4.] ]-वातः wind produced by shaking a winnowing-basket.-श्रुतिः an elephant.