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.] ])
the bottom or lower depths of the earth (as the seat of putrefaction),
[AV.] ;
[VS.] ;
[ŚBr.] निर्-°ऋति m. m. death or the genius of death,
[BhP.] N. of a
रुद्र,
[MBh.] ;
[Hariv.] ;
[Pur.] नि-कृति of one of the 8
वसुs,
[Hariv.] (
v.l. )