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श्वेत m. mf(आ॑ or श्वेनी)n. white, dressed, in white, bright (with प॑र्वतm. ‘snow-mountain’ [ŚBr.]; with कटा-क्षm. ‘a bright side-glance’ [Saṃgīt.]), [RV.] &c. &c. श्वेत m. m. white (the colour), [L.] a white horse, [ŚBr.] a small white shell, cowry, [L.] a silver coin, [L.] a white cloud, [L.] the planet Venus or its regent शुक्र, [L.] -केतु a partic. comet (cf. ), [VarBṛS.] जीवक a partic. plant (= ), [L.] cumin seed, [W.] वैदार्व N. of a serpent-demon (with or वैदार्व्य or वैदर्व्य; others give श्वैत-वैदारव as signifying ‘a partic. deity connected with the sun’), [GṛS.]; [Pur.] N. of one of स्कन्द's attendants, [MBh.] of a दैत्य (son of विप्र-चित्ति), [Hariv.] of a मुनि, [MBh.]; [Kathās.] of a partic. अवतार of शिव, [Cat.] of a pupil of शिव, [IW. 122 n. 3] of a manifestation of विष्णु in his वराह incarnation (worshipped in a partic. part of India), [MW.] of a राजर्षि, [MBh.] of a son of the king सुदेव, [R.] of a general, [MBh.] of a son of वपुष्मत्, [MārkP.] of a preceptor, [Cat.] of a mythical elephant, [MBh.] of the sixth range of mountains dividing the known continent (the white or ‘snowy’ mountains separating the वर्षs of हिरण्मय and रम्यक), [MBh.]; [Pur.] ([IW. 420 n. 1]) -द्वीप of one of the minor द्वीपs or divisions of the world (cf. ), [MBh.]; [R.] श्वेत n. n. the white of the eye, [Suśr.] the growing white (of the hair), [ChUp.] silver, [L.] butter-milk and water mixed half and half, [L.]
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