kfṣānu | क्फ़्षानु | kfSAnu
kfṣā/nu | क्फ़्षा/नु | m. (fr. √ kfṣ | क्फ़्ष् | for kfś | क्फ़्श् |?), ‘bending the bow’, N. applied to a good archer (connected with a/stf | अ/स्त्फ़् |, ‘an archer’, though sometimes used alone; Kṛśānu, according to some, is a divine being, in character like Rudra or identified with him; armed with the lightning he defends the ‘heavenly’ Soma from the hawk, who tries to steal and bear it from heaven to earth), RV.; VS. iv, 27; AitBr. iii, 26
N. of Agni or fire, VS. v, 32; ŚāṅkhŚr. vi, 12, 3
(hence) fire, Suśr.; Ragh.; Kum.; Bhartṛ.
N. of Viṣṇu, VarBṛS. xliii, 54
of a Gandharva
Plumbago Zeylanica, L.
N. of Agni or fire, VS. v, 32; ŚāṅkhŚr. vi, 12, 3
(hence) fire, Suśr.; Ragh.; Kum.; Bhartṛ.
N. of Viṣṇu, VarBṛS. xliii, 54
of a Gandharva
Plumbago Zeylanica, L.