शूर्पणखा

Sanskrit

Etymology

शूर्प (śūrpa) +‎ नख (nakha)

Proper noun

शूर्पणखा • (śūrpaṇakhā) stem, f

(literary) having fingernails like winnowing fans.
(Hinduism) Name of the sister of Ravana in Ramayana.(she fell in love with राम-चन्द्र and, being rejected by him and insulted by सीता's laughter, assumed a hideous form and threatened to eat her up, but was beaten off by लक्ष्मण, who cut off her ears and nose and thus doubly disfigured her ; in revenge she incited her brother to carry off सीता)

References

Monier Williams (1899) “शूर्पणखा”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 1086.

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