hastinī

Dictionary meanings for hastinī from Apte and Monier-Williams.

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hastinī

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Apte Sanskrit-English Dictionary

1 A female elephant.

2 A kind of drug and perfume.

3 A woman of a particular class, one of the four classes into which writers on erotical science divide women [Page1169-b+ 56] (described as having thick lips, thick hips, thick fingers, large breasts, dark complexion, and li- bidinous appetite); the Ratiman- jarī thus describes her: sthūlādharā sthūlanitaṃbabiṃbā sthūlāṃguliḥ sthūlakucā suśīlā. kāmotsukā...

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