m. a partic. class of demons or spirits (also = vetāla), Ma1latim.; Ba1lar.; SaddhP. 641,2 127434 f. See next. 081668 641,2 127435 f. N. of a female demon (said to cause a partic. disease in children, and to have offered her poisoned breast to the infant Kr2ishn2a kṛṣṇa who seized it and sucked away her life; regarded also as one of the Ma1tr2is mAtf s attending upon Skanda skanda, and... f. a kind of disease in a...