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निर्-°ऋति f. f. (
नि॑र्-) dissolution, destruction, calamity, evil, adversity, [RV.] &c. &c. (personified as the goddess of death and corruption and often associated with मृत्यु, अ-राति &c., [RV.] ; [AV.] ; [VS.] ; variously regarded as the wife of अ-धर्म, mother of भय, महा-भय and मृत्यु [[MBh.] ] or as a daughter of अ-धर्म and हिंसा and mother of नरक and भय [[MārkP.] ]; binds mortals with her cords, [AV.] ; [Br.] &c.; is regent of the south [[AV.] ] and of the asterism मूल [[Var.] ])
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Wife of the Deva called Adharma. She had three sons called Bhaya, Mahābhaya and Antaka. These Rākṣasas are known as Nairṛtas. [Ādi Parva, Chapter 66, Verse 54] .
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the bottom or lower depths of the earth (as the seat of putrefaction), [AV.] ; [VS.] ; [ŚBr.]
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निर्-°ऋति m. m. death or the genius of death, [BhP.]
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