ujjayinī | उज्जयिनी | ujjayinI

uj-jayinī | उज्-जयिनी | f. the city Oujein (the Gk. Ὀζήνη, a city so called in Avanti or Mālava, formerly the capital of Vikramāditya; it is one of the seven sacred cities of the Hindūs, and the first meridian of their geographers, from which they calculate longitude; the modern Oujein is about a mile south of the ancient city), Hit.; Megh.; Rājat. &c.

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