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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Vāyuvāhinī (वायुवाहिनी).—a vein, an artery, a vessel of the body.

Vāyuvāhinī is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms vāyu and vāhinī (वाहिनी).

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Vāyuvāhinī (वायुवाहिनी).—f. (-nī) A vessel of the body, supposed, as the arteries were once imagined, to convey the aerial humour. E. vāyu, vāhinī bearing.

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

Vāyuvāhinī (वायुवाहिनी):—[=vāyu-vāhinī] [from vāyu] f. the air-conveying (vessel of the body), [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Vāyuvāhinī (वायुवाहिनी):—[vāyu-vāhinī] (nī) 3. f. A vessel of the body.

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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.

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Partial matches: Vahini, Vayu.

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