Sanskrit Dictionary

mf(/ā-)n. black, dark, dark-blue (opposed to śvet/a-, śukl/a-, r/ohita-,and aruṇ/a-)

etc.

mf(/ā-)n. wicked, evil

m. (with or without pakṣa-) the dark half of the lunar month from full to new moon

m. the fourth or kali-yuga-

m. black (the colour) or dark-blue (which is often confounded with black by the Hindus)

m. the antelope

m. a kind of animal feeding on carrion

(kṛṣṇ/a-)

m. the Indian cuckoo or Kokila (see

)

m. a crow

m. Carissa Carandas

m. Name of one of the poets of the

(descended from aṅgiras-)

m. (a son of devakī- and pupil of ghora- āṅgirasa-)

m. Name of a celebrated Avatar of the god viṣṇu-, or sometimes identified with viṣṇu- himself ([

]) as distinct from his ten Avata1rsAvatars or incarnations (in the earlier legends he appears as a great hero and teacher[

];in the more recent he is deified, and is often represented as a young and amorous shepherd with flowing hair and a flute in his hand;the following are a few particulars of his birth and history as related in

and in the purāṇa-s etc.: vasu-deva-, who was a descendant of yadu- and yayāti-, had two wives, rohiṇī- and devakī-;the latter had eight sons of whom the eighth was kṛṣṇa-; kaṃsa-, king of mathurā- and cousin of devakī-, was informed by a prediction that one of these sons would kill him;he therefore kept vasu-deva- and his wife in confinement, and slew their first six children;the seventh was balarāma- who was saved by being abstracted from the womb of devakī- and transferred to that of rohiṇī-;the eighth was kṛṣṇa- who was born with black skin and a peculiar mark on his breast;his father vasu-deva- managed to escape from mathurā- with the child, and favoured by the gods found a herdsman named nanda- whose wife yaśo-dā- had just been delivered of a son which vasu-deva- conveyed to devakī- after substituting his own in its place. nanda- with his wife yaśo-dā- took the infant kṛṣṇa- and settled first in gokula- or vraja-, and afterwards in vṛndāvana-, where kṛṣṇa- and bala-rāma- grew up together, roaming in the woods and joining in the sports of the herdsmen's sons; kṛṣṇa- as a youth contested the sovereignty of indra-, and was victorious over that god, who descended from heaven to praise kṛṣṇa-, and made him lord over the cattle[

]; kṛṣṇa- is described as sporting constantly with the gopī-s or shepherdesses[

]of whom a thousand became his wives, though only eight are specified, rādhā- being the favourite[

]; kṛṣṇa- built and fortified a city called dvārakā- in Gujarat, and thither transported the inhabitants of mathurā- after killing kaṃsa-; kṛṣṇa- had various wives besides the gopī-s, and by rukmiṇī- had a son pradyumna- who is usually identified with kāma-deva-;with Jains, kṛṣṇa- is one of the nine black vasu-deva-s;with Buddhists he is the chief of the black demons, who are the enemies of buddha- and the white demons)

m. Name of an attendant in skanda-'s retinue

m. of an asura-

m. of a king of the nāga-s

m. of arjuna- (the most renowned of the pāṇḍu- princes, so named apparently from his colour as a child)

m. of vyāsa-

m. of hārita- See -hārita-

m. of a son of śuka- by pīvarī- (teacher of the yoga-)

m. of a pupil of bharad-vāja-

m. of havir-dhāna-

m. of a son of arjuna-

m. of an adopted son of a-samañjas-,

m. of a chief of the andhra-s

m. of the author of a commentator or commentary on the

m. of a poet

m. of the author of a commentator or commentary on the dayā-bhāga-

m. of the son of keśavārka- and grandson of jayāditya-

m. of the father of tāna-bhaṭṭa- and uncle of raṅga-nātha-

m. of the father of dāmodara- and uncle of malhaṇa-

m. of the father of prabhūjīka- and uncle of vidyā-dhara-

m. of the father of madana-

m. of the grammarian rāma-candra-

m. of the son of vāruṇendra- and father of lakṣmaṇa-

m. of the father of hīra-bhaṭṭa- (author of the commentator or commentary called carakabhāṣya-, and of the work sāhitya-sudhā-samudra-)

m. Name of a hell

m. plural Name of the śūdra-s in śālmala-dvīpa-

n. blackness, darkness,

m. the black part of the eye

m. the black spots in the moon

m. a kind of demon or spirit of darkness

m. black pepper

m. black Agallochum

m. iron

m. lead

m. antimony

m. blue vitriol

m. ([ confer, compare k/ārṣṇa-,etc.; confer, compare also Russian c8ernyi,"black."])

Nom. P. ṣṇati-, to behave or act like kṛṣṇa-

kṛṣṇabalakṣa

mfn. black and white

kṛṣṇabandhu

m. friend of darkness

kṛṣṇabarbaraka

m. Name of a plant

kṛṣṇabhaginī

f. " kṛṣṇa-'s sister", Name of durgā-

kṛṣṇabhakṣa

mfn. eating dark food

kṛṣṇabhakta

m. a worshipper of kṛṣṇa-

kṛṣṇabhakta

m. Name of a Brahman

kṛṣṇabhakti

f. "worship of kṛṣṇa-", Name of a work

kṛṣṇabhakticandrikā

f. Name of a drama.

kṛṣṇabhasman

n. sulphate of mercury

kṛṣṇabhaṭṭa

m. Name of a grammarian

kṛṣṇabhaṭṭa

m. of a poet

kṛṣṇabhaṭṭī

f. Name of a commentator or commentary written by kṛṣṇa-bhaṭṭa-.

kṛṣṇabhaṭṭīya

n. Name of work composed by kṛṣṇa-bhaṭṭa-.

kṛṣṇabhedā

f. the plant Helleborus niger

kṛṣṇabhogin

m. equals -bhujaṃga-

kṛṣṇabhū

f. equals -bhūma-

kṛṣṇabhujaṃga

m. "black snake", Coluber nāga-.

kṛṣṇabhūma

m. (

) soil or ground with black earth commentator or commentary on

kṛṣṇabhūmijā

f. "growing in a black soil", a species of grass

kṛṣṇabhūmika

m. idem or 'm. ( ) soil or ground with black earth commentator or commentary on '

kṛṣṇabhūṣaṇa

n. Name (also title or epithet) of work

kṛṣṇabīja

m. "having a black seed", a Moringa with red blossoms

kṛṣṇabīja

n. a water-melon

kṛṣṇacaitanya

m. Name of the famous prophet caitanya-

kṛṣṇacaitanyapurī

m. Name of a philosopher.

kṛṣṇacañcuka

m. a kind of pea (equals caṇaka-)

kṛṣṇacandra

m. Name of a copyist who lived about A.D. 1730 (son of rāma-candra-)

kṛṣṇacandra

m. Name of a prince of the eighteenth century

kṛṣṇacandradevaśarman

m. Name of a logician who lived about A.D. 1736.

kṛṣṇacara

mfn. belonging formerly or in a former existence to kṛṣṇa-

kṛṣṇacaturdaśī

f. the fourteenth day in the dark half of the month

kṛṣṇacchavi

f. the skin of the black antelope ["a black cloud"commentator or commentary ]

kṛṣṇacūḍā

f. the plant Caesalpina pulcherrima

kṛṣṇacūḍikā

f. the tree Abrus precatorius

kṛṣṇacūrṇa

n. rust of iron, iron filings

kṛṣṇadaivajña

m. Name of a man.

kṛṣṇadanta

mfn. having black teeth

kṛṣṇadantā

f. the tree Gmelina arborea

kṛṣṇadarśana

m. Name of a pupil of śaṃkarācārya-.

kṛṣṇadaśa

mfn. equals -tūṣa-

m. Name of the author of the poem camatkāra-candrikā-

m. of the author of the work caitanya-caritāmṛta-

m. of the author of the poem preta-tattva-nirūpaṇa-

m. of a son of harṣa- (author of the vimala-nātha-purāṇa-).

kṛṣṇadatta

m. "given by kṛṣṇa-", Name of the author of a work on music.

kṛṣṇadeha

m. "black-bodied", a large black bee

kṛṣṇadeva

m. Name of a son of nārāyaṇa- (author of the prayoga-sāra-)

kṛṣṇadeva

m. of a copyist (son of paṇḍyāpuruṣottamadeva-)

kṛṣṇadeva

m. of another man

kṛṣṇadhānya

n. a black variety of barley

kṛṣṇadhattūra

m. a dark species of Datura or thorn-apple (Datura fastuosa)

kṛṣṇadhattūraka

m. a dark species of Datura or thorn-apple (Datura fastuosa)

kṛṣṇadhṛti

m. (with sātyaki-) Name (also title or epithet) of a teacher,

kṛṣṇadhūrjaṭidīkṣita

m. Name of an author.

kṛṣṇadīkṣita

m. Name of a teacher.

kṛṣṇadra

n. ?

kṛṣṇadvādaśī

f. the twelfth day in the dark half of the month aṣāḍha-,

kṛṣṇadvaipāyana

m. "black islander", Name of vyāsa- (compiler of the

and of the purāṇa-s;so named because of his dark complexion and because he was brought forth by satyavatī- on a dvīpa- or island in the Ganges)

kṛṣṇagala

m. "having a black throat", a kind of bird

kṛṣṇagandhā

f. Hyperanthera Moringa

kṛṣṇagaṅgā

f. the river Kistna (See kṛṣṇā-)

kṛṣṇagarbha

m. the plant Myrica sapida (= kaṭphala-)

kṛṣṇagarbhā

f. plural the waters contained in the black cavities of the clouds [Comm. on

;"the pregnant wives of the asura- kṛṣṇa-"

]

kṛṣṇagati

m. "whose way is black", fire

kṛṣṇagava

mfn. drawn by black oxen, ibidem or 'in the same place or book or text' as the preceding

kṛṣṇagiri

m. Name of a mountain

kṛṣṇagodhā

f. a kind of venomous insect

kṛṣṇagrīva

(kṛṣṇ/a--) mf(/ī-)n. black-necked

kṛṣṇagulma

m. (equals -garbha-) the plant Myrica sapida

kṛṣṇagupta

m. Name of a man

kṛṣṇahārita

m. Name of a ṛṣi-

kṛṣṇaita

mfn. (

) spotted black

kṛṣṇaja

m. " kṛṣṇa-'s son", Name of pradyumna-

kṛṣṇajaṃhas

(kṛṣṇ/a--) mfn. black-winged ["having a black path"

and

]

kṛṣṇajanaka

m. "father of kṛṣṇa-", Name of vasudeva-

kṛṣṇajanmakhaṇḍa

n. "section on kṛṣṇa-'s birth", Name of a section of

kṛṣṇajanmāṣṭamī

f. " kṛṣṇa-'s birth-day", the eighth day of the second half of the month śrāvaṇa-

(see kṛṣṇāṣṭamī-below.)

kṛṣṇajaṭā

f. Nardostachys jaṭā-māṃsī-

kṛṣṇajī

m. Name of a man.

kṛṣṇajīra

m. Nigella indica (having a small black seed used for medical and culinary purposes)

kṛṣṇajīraka

m. idem or 'm. Nigella indica (having a small black seed used for medical and culinary purposes) '

kṛṣṇajīvanī

f. a species of the tulasī- plant

kṛṣṇajyotirvid

m. Name of an author.

kṛṣṇaka

m. (gaRa sthūlādi-) "blackish", a kind of plant (perhaps black Sesamum)

kṛṣṇaka

m. a shortened N. for kṛṣṇājina-

kṛṣṇakāka

m. a raven

kṛṣṇakali

f. equals -keli-

kṛṣṇakanda

n. the red lotus (Nymphaea rubra)

kṛṣṇakāpotī

f. a kind of plant

(see śveta-k-and kṛṣṇa-sarpā-.)

kṛṣṇakaravira

m. a black variety of Oleander

kṛṣṇakarburavarṇa

m. "of a variegated dark colour", a kind of bird

kṛṣṇakarkaṭaka

m. a kind of black crab

kṛṣṇakarman

n. "making black", a peculiar manner of cauterising

kṛṣṇakarman

mfn. doing wrong, criminal

kṛṣṇakarṇa

mf(ī-)n. (gaRa suvāstv-ādi-) black-eared

kṛṣṇakarṇāmṛta

n. "nectar for kṛṣṇa-'s ears", Name of a poem by bilvamaṅgala-.

kṛṣṇakāṣṭha

n. a black variety of Agallochum

kṛṣṇakaṭukā

f. black Helleborus

kṛṣṇakavaca

n. a kind of prayer or mantra-

kṛṣṇakeli

f. Mirabilis Jalapa

kṛṣṇakeśa

m. black-haired

kṛṣṇakeśa

m. Name of an attendant in skanda-'s retinue

kṛṣṇakhaṇḍa

n. " kṛṣṇa--section", Name of

kṛṣṇakhura

m. having black hoofs,

kṛṣṇakiṃkaraprakriyā

f. Name of work

kṛṣṇakīrtana

n. "praise of kṛṣṇa-", Name of a work.

kṛṣṇakohala

m. a gamester, gambler

kṛṣṇakrīḍita

n. " kṛṣṇa-'s sports", Name of a poem by keśavārka- (celebrating the god kṛṣṇa-).

kṛṣṇakutūhala

n. Name of work

kṛṣṇala

n. rarely ([

]) m. (gaRa sidhmādi-) the black berry of the plant Abrus precatorius used as a weight (the average weight being between one and two grains)

commentator or commentary on

etc.

kṛṣṇala

n. a coin of the same weight

kṛṣṇala

n. a piece of gold of the same weight

kṛṣṇalā

f. Abrus precatorius (a shrub bearing a small black and red berry equals guñjā-, raktikā-)

kṛṣṇalaka

mn. in fine compositi or 'at the end of a compound' (equals la-) the black berry of the plant Abrus precatorius used as a weight

kṛṣṇalalāma

mfn. having a black spot

kṛṣṇalavaṇa

n. black salt

kṛṣṇalavaṇa

n. a factitious salt (either that prepared by evaporation from saline soil, or the medicinal kind[ equals viḍ-lavaṇa-],a muriate of soda with a portion of sulphur and iron)

kṛṣṇalīlātaraṃgiṇī

f. "description of kṛṣṇa-'s sports", Name of a poem by nārāyaṇa-tīrtha-.

kṛṣṇaloha

n. the loadstone

kṛṣṇaloha

n. iron

kṛṣṇalohita

mfn. dark-red, of a purple colour

kṛṣṇamāhātmya

n. Name (also title or epithet) of work

kṛṣṇamallikā

f. the plant Ocimum Sanctum

kṛṣṇamāluka

m. equals -mallikā-

kṛṣṇamaṇḍala

n. the black part of the eye

kṛṣṇamārga

mfn. (fr. mṛga-), coming from the black antelope

kṛṣṇamārgaṇa

n. the skin of the black antelope

kṛṣṇamasūra

m. a black kind of lentil

kṛṣṇamatsya

m. "black-fish", Name of a fish

kṛṣṇamaunin

m. "keeping a vow of kṛṣṇa-", Name of an author.

kṛṣṇamiśra

m. (equals -paṇḍita-) Name of the author of

kṛṣṇamiśra

m. of another man.

kṛṣṇamitra

m. " kṛṣṇa-'s friend", Name of the son of rāma-sevaka- (grandson of devī-datta-, author of the mañjūṣā-kuñcikā-).

kṛṣṇamṛd

f. black soil or earth

kṛṣṇamṛga

m. the black antelope

kṛṣṇamṛttika

mfn. having a dark soil or blue mould (as a country)

kṛṣṇamṛttikā

f. black earth

kṛṣṇamṛttikā

f. Name of a grāma-

kṛṣṇamudga

m. a sort of pulse (Phaseolus Mungo)

mf(ī-)n. having a black mouth

mf(ī-)n. having black nipples

m. Name of an asura-

kṛṣṇapuruṣottamasiddhāntopaniṣad

m. plural Name of a sect,

kṛṣṇamukhataṇḍula

m. a kind of rice

kṛṣṇamūlī

f. "having a black root", a variety of the sārivā- plant

kṛṣṇanagara

n. Name of a small district (called after a town situated in it).

kṛṣṇanandana

m. equals -ja-

kṛṣṇanandin

m. Name (also title or epithet) of a poet,

kṛṣṇanayana

mfn. black-eyed

kṛṣṇanetra

m. "black-eyed", Name of śiva-

kṛṣṇapadāmṛta

n. Name (also title or epithet) of work

kṛṣṇapadī

f. a female with black feet gaRa kumbhapady-ādi-.

kṛṣṇapāka

m. Carissa Carandas (bearing a small fruit which, when ripe, is of a black colour;commonly Karinda or Karonda)

kṛṣṇapākaphala

m. idem or 'm. Carissa Carandas (bearing a small fruit which, when ripe, is of a black colour;commonly Karinda or Karonda) '

kṛṣṇapakṣa

m. the dark half of a month (fifteen days during which the moon is on the wane, time from full to new moon)

etc.

kṛṣṇapakṣa

m. "standing on the side of kṛṣṇa-", Name of arjuna-

kṛṣṇapakṣika

m. "standing on the side of the nāga- king kṛṣṇa-", Name of a king of the nāga-s

kṛṣṇapakṣīya

mfn. pertaining to the wane of the moon

kṛṣṇapāṃsu

mfn. having black earth

kṛṣṇapaṇḍita

m. (equals -miśra-) Name of the author of the

kṛṣṇapaṇḍita

m. of a scholiast on the prakriyākaumudī-.

kṛṣṇapāṇḍura

mfn. greyish white

kṛṣṇaparṇī

f. the plant Ocimum pilosum

kṛṣṇapavi

(ṣṇ/a--) mfn. having black tires (said of agni-)

kṛṣṇaphala

m. "having a black fruit", equals -pāka-

kṛṣṇaphalā

f. the plant Vernonia anthelminthica

kṛṣṇaphalā

f. a variety of Mucuna

kṛṣṇapilla

m. Name of a poetry or poetic

kṛṣṇapiṇḍīra

m. idem or 'm. a dark variety of māyaṇa- (Cyperus rotundus or Vangueria spinosa) '

kṛṣṇapiṇḍītaka

m. a dark variety of māyaṇa- (Cyperus rotundus or Vangueria spinosa)

kṛṣṇapiṅgā

f. (equals ṅgalā-) Name of durgā-

kṛṣṇapiṅgala

mf(ā-)n. dark-brown in colour

kṛṣṇapiṅgala

m. Name of a man, and m. plural his descendants gaRa upakādi-

kṛṣṇapiṅgalā

f. Name of the goddess durgā-

kṛṣṇapipīlī

f. a kind of black ant

kṛṣṇapremāmṛta

n. "nectar of kṛṣṇa-'s love", Name of a poem.

kṛṣṇaprut

mfn. moving in darkness ["taking or imparting a black colour"

]

kṛṣṇapuccha

m. "black-tailed", the fish Rohita

kṛṣṇapucchaka

m. a kind of antelope

f. Name of an

kṛṣṇapuṣpa

m. "black-blossomed" equals -dhattūra-

kṛṣṇapuṣpī

f. the plant priyaṅgu-

kṛṣṇarāja

m. Name of a man.

kṛṣṇarāja

m. Name (also title or epithet) of various kings,

kṛṣṇarakta

mfn. of a dark-red colour

kṛṣṇarāma

m. Name of a prince.

kṛṣṇarāmāya

Nom. A1. yate-, only parasmE-pada yita- (mfn.) representing kṛṣṇa- and rāma-

kṛṣṇarāya

m. Name (also title or epithet) of various kings,

kṛṣṇaruhā

f. Name of a plant (equals jatukā-)

kṛṣṇarūpya

mfn. equals -cara-

kṛṣṇaśa

mfn. blackish ["extremely black"

]

kṛṣṇaśabala

(ṣṇ/a--) mfn. (

) of a dark variegated colour

kṛṣṇasaireyaka

m. a variety of Barleria

kṛṣṇasakha

m. "friend of kṛṣṇa-", Name of arjuna-

f. cummin seed

m. Name of a man

m. a crow,

m. a crow

m. a black sort of rice

kṛṣṇaśalkin

m. "black-twigged", Cyprinus Rohita

kṛṣṇaśaṃkaraśarman

m. Name of a man

kṛṣṇasamudbhavā

f. equals -veṇā-

kṛṣṇaśapha

(ṣṇ/a--) mfn. having black hoofs

)

mf(ī-)n. chiefly black, black and white (as the eye), spotted black

etc.

m. (with or without mṛga-) the spotted antelope

etc.

m. Dalbergia Sissoo

m. Euphorbia antiquorum

m. Acacia Catechu

kṛṣṇasārā

f. Dalbergia Sissoo

m. Euphorbia antiquorum

m. the eyeball

kṛṣṇasāramukha

n. Name of a particular position of the hand

kṛṣṇasāraṅga

mfn. (

) spotted black

kṛṣṇasāraṅga

m. the spotted antelope

(varia lectio)

kṛṣṇasāraṅgī

f. a female black antelope

kṛṣṇasaras

n. Name of a lake

kṛṣṇasārathi

m. "having kṛṣṇa- for a charioteer", Name of arjuna-

kṛṣṇasārathi

m. Terminalia Arjuna

kṛṣṇasārivā

f. a black variety of sārivā-

kṛṣṇaśarman

m. "protected by kṛṣṇa-", Name of an author.

kṛṣṇasarpa

m. equals -bhujaṃga-

etc.

kṛṣṇasarpā

f. equals -kāpotī-

kṛṣṇasarṣapa

m. black mustard

kṛṣṇasārvabhauma

m. Name of a poetry or poetic

kṛṣṇaṣaṣṭika

m. a black sort of rice

kṛṣṇaṣaṣṭikā

f. a black sort of rice

kṛṣṇasevāhnika

n. Name of work

kṛṣṇaśigru

m. the plant Moringa pterygosperma

kṛṣṇaśilā

f. plural "the black stones", Name of a place

kṛṣṇaśimbī

f. idem or 'f. a kind of kidney-bean '

kṛṣṇaśimbikā

f. a kind of kidney-bean

kṛṣṇasiṃha

m. Name of the author of the work trepanakriyākathā-

kṛṣṇaśiṃśapā

f. the tree Dalbergia Sissoo

kṛṣṇaśīrṣan

(ṣṇ/a--), mfn. black-headed,

kṛṣṇasīta

(ṣṇ/a--) mfn. drawing black furrows ["having a black path"

]

kṛṣṇaskandha

m. "having a black stem", a kind of tree commentator or commentary on

kṛṣṇaśṛṅga

m. a buffalo with black horns

kṛṣṇaśṛta

mfn. worshipping or devoted to kṛṣṇa-

kṛṣṇastotra

n. Name (also title or epithet) of hymn

kṛṣṇastuti

f. Name (also title or epithet) of hymn

kṛṣṇasū

f. " kṛṣṇa-'s mother", Name of devakī-

kṛṣṇasundara

m. Name of a man, and m. plural his descendants gaRa upakādi- and tika-kitavādi-.

m. equals -ja-

m. Name of a hell

n. a black thread,

f. equals -bhaginī-

kṛṣṇatā

f. blackness

kṛṣṇatā

f. the state of the waning moon

kṛṣṇatāla

m. Xanthochymus pictorius

kṛṣṇatāmra

mfn. dark red

kṛṣṇatāmra

n. a kind of sandal-wood

kṛṣṇataṇḍulā

f. the plant Gynandropsis pentaphylla

kṛṣṇataṇḍulā

f. Piper longum

kṛṣṇatāra

m. "black-eyed", an antelope

kṛṣṇatārā

f. the black of the eye

kṛṣṇatarkālaṃkāra

m. Name of a scholiast.

kṛṣṇatila

m. (

) black sesamum

kṛṣṇatilya

mfn. fr. -tila-

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kṛṣṇatīrtha

m. Name of a teacher of rāma-tīrtha-

kṛṣṇatīrtha

n. Name of a tīrtha-

kṛṣṇatrivṛtā

f. a kind of Ipomoea (black Teöri)

kṛṣṇatuṇḍa

m. "black-beaked", a kind of poisonous insect

kṛṣṇatūṣa

(ṣṇ/a--) mfn. having a black seam or selvage

kṛṣṇatva

n. blackness

kṛṣṇatva

n. the state of kṛṣṇa-

kṛṣṇau

m. dual number kṛṣṇa- and arjuna-

kṛṣṇaujas

m. Name of an attendant in skanda-'s retinue

kṛṣṇavaktra

mfn. having a black mouth (as an ape)

kṛṣṇavāla

(ṣṇ/a--) mfn. black-tailed

)

kṛṣṇavallī

f. equals -mallikā-

kṛṣṇavallī

f. a black variety of sārivā-

kṛṣṇavallikā

f. equals -ruhā-

kṛṣṇavānara

m. a black kind of monkey

kṛṣṇavarṇa

mfn. of a black colour, dark-blue

kṛṣṇavarṇā

f. Name of one of the mothers in skanda-'s retinue

kṛṣṇavartani

(ṣṇ/a--) mfn. having a black path (said of agni-)

m. "whose way is black", fire

m. the marking-nut plant (Plumbago Zeylanica)

m. Name of rāhu-