nirfti | निर्फ़्ति | nirfti
ni/r-˚fti | नि/र्-˚फ़्ति | f. (ni/r- | नि/र्- |) dissolution, destruction, calamity, evil, adversity, RV. &c. &c. (personified as the goddess of death and corruption and often associated with Mṛtyu, A-rāti &c., RV.; AV.; VS.; variously regarded as the wife of A-dharma, mother of Bhaya, Mahā-bhaya and Mṛtyu [MBh.] or as a daughter of A-dharma and Hiṃsā and mother of Naraka and Bhaya [MārkP.]; binds mortals with her cords, AV.; Br. &c.; is regent of the south [AV.] and of the asterism Mūla [Var.])
the bottom or lower depths of the earth (as the seat of putrefaction), AV.; VS.; ŚBr.
ni/r-˚fti | नि/र्-˚फ़्ति | m. death or the genius of death, BhP.
N. of a Rudra, MBh.; Hariv.; Pur.
of one of the 8 Vasus, Hariv. (v.l. ni-kfti | नि-क्फ़्ति |)
the bottom or lower depths of the earth (as the seat of putrefaction), AV.; VS.; ŚBr.
ni/r-˚fti | नि/र्-˚फ़्ति | m. death or the genius of death, BhP.
N. of a Rudra, MBh.; Hariv.; Pur.
of one of the 8 Vasus, Hariv. (v.l. ni-kfti | नि-क्फ़्ति |)