ujjayinī

Dictionary meanings for ujjayinī from Apte and Monier-Williams.

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ujjayinī

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Apte Sanskrit-English Dictionary

ujjayinī is an alternate of ujjayanī. N. of a city, the modern Oujein in Mālvā, the capital of Vikramāditya. It is one of the seven sacred cities of the Hindus (cf. avaṃti), and the first meridian of their geographers from which they calculate longitude; sau- dhotsaṃgapraṇayavimukho mā sma bhūrujjayinyāḥ Me. 27.

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