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Source: archive.org: Puranic Encyclopedia

1) Vīraṇī (वीरणी).—(VĪRIṆĪ). A daughter of Brahmā. First, Brahmā created the Saptarṣis (the seven hermits) by his mind. After this Rudra was born from the anger of Brahmā, Nārada from the lap of Brahmā, Dakṣa from the thumb of Brahmā, Sanaka and the others from the mind of Brahmā, and the daughter Vīraṇī from the left thumb of Brahmā. Dakṣa married this Vīraṇī. Nārada took rebirth as the son of this couple.

Dakṣa married Vīraṇī at the behest of Brahmā. At first this beautiful woman gave birth to five thousand sons. Nārada misguided them. Dakṣa got angry at this. He cursed Nārada. Owing to that curse Nārada had to take birth again as the son of Dakṣa and Vīrani. (Devī Bhāgavata, Skandha 7).

2) Vīraṇī (वीरणी).—A teacher-priest. According to Vāyu Purāṇa, Vīraṇī was a disciple of the famous teacher Yājñavalkya of the Yajurveda-line of disciples of Vyāsa.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: The Purana Index

Vīraṇi (वीरणि).—A Vāgin.^*

• * Vāyu-purāṇa 61. 25.

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The Purana (पुराण, purāṇas) refers to Sanskrit literature preserving ancient India’s vast cultural history, including historical legends, religious ceremonies, various arts and sciences. The eighteen mahapuranas total over 400,000 shlokas (metrical couplets) and date to at least several centuries BCE.

Biology (plants and animals)

Source: Google Books: CRC World Dictionary (Regional names)

Virani in India is the name of a plant defined with Trichodesma indicum in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Borago indica L. (among others).

Example references for further research on medicinal uses or toxicity (see latin names for full list):

· Species Plantarum (1753)
· Trichodesma (1817)
· Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae (1810)
· Prodr. (DC.) (1846)
· Cyclopaedia.
· Plantae e Familiae Asperifoliarum Nuciferae (1818)

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Languages of India and abroad

Sanskrit dictionary

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Vīraṇī (वीरणी).—

1) A side-look.

2) A deep place.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary

1) Vīraṇī (वीरणी):—[from vīraṇa > vīr] f. a side-glance, leer, [Horace H. Wilson]

2) [v.s. ...] a deep place, [ib.]

3) [v.s. ...] Name of a daughter of Vīraṇa and mother of Cākṣuṣa, [Harivaṃśa]

4) [v.s. ...] = n., [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

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Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.

Tamil dictionary

Source: DDSA: University of Madras: Tamil Lexicon

Virāṇi (விராணி) noun < virāṇin. Elephant; யானை. ((சங்கத்தகராதி) தமிழ்சொல்லகராதி) [yanai. ((sangathagarathi) thamizhsollagarathi)]

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Vīraṇi (வீரணி) noun < vīraṇa. Cuscus grass. See இலாமிச்சை. (தைலவருக்கச்சுருக்கம்) [ilamichai. (thailavarukkachurukkam)]

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Vīraṇi (வீரணி) noun < வீரம்¹ [viram¹] + probably from அண்ணு-. [annu-.] Pepper; மிளகு. (வைத்திய மலையகராதி) [milagu. (vaithiya malaiyagarathi)]

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Tamil is an ancient language of India from the Dravidian family spoken by roughly 250 million people mainly in southern India and Sri Lanka.

See also (Relevant definitions)

Starts with: Viranikkilanku, Viranin.

Full-text: Virini, Birana, Narada, Kritashva, Virana, Shabalashva, Asikni, Suvrata, Atreyi.

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