As a deity name
Name 650 of the Durga Sahasranāma — Kula Arnava Tantra / Skanda Purana, as taught by Lord Shiva to Goddess Parvati
As a Hindi name
हस्तिनी · noun · feminine
मादा हाथी । हथिनी · एक प्रकार का सुगंधित द्रव्य । हट्टविलासिनी · कामशास्त्र के अनुसार स्त्री के चार भेदों में से सबसे निकृष्ट भेद — Śabdasāgara
हस्तिनी · hastinī · s.f.
A female elephant (i.q. hathnī, q.v.) — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 1229
हस्तिनी · feminine
A female elephant.
Cited formation "हस्तिनी" is हस्ति + -नी: हस्ति means "An elephant", and the suffix -नी forms feminine of some nouns. CHD Basic Grammar App. II §5 — cited from the extracted rule table — base gloss: Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago
a Hindi word, a tadbhava: evolved from the Sanskrit through Prakrit हस्तिन् — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Inherited from Sanskrit हस्तिन् (hastin).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
hastin mfn. having hands, clever or dexterous with the h˚, RV.; AV.
(with mṛga, ‘the animal with a h˚ i.e. with a trunk’, an elephant; cf. dantah˚), ib.
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
a woman of a partic. class (one of the 4 classes into which women are divided, described as having thick lips, thick hips, thick fingers, large breasts, dark complexion, and strong…
Scripturally attested Verified derivationMultiple readings (2)Why this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "hastinī" is the feminine form of "hastin" — the same word with the feminine ending (vocative dual).
Dictionary citations
hastinī (inī), f. a female elephant, AV. &c. &c.
a kind of drug and perfume (= haṭṭa-vilāsinī), L.
a woman of a partic. class (one of the 4 classes into which women are divided, described as having thick lips, thick hips, thick fingers, large breasts, dark complexion, and strong sexual passion), Siṃhās.
N. of Hastinā-pura, L.
hastinī 1 A female elephant. 2 A kind of drug and perfume. 3 A woman of a particular class, one of the four classes into which writers on erotical science divide women (pb) (described as having thick lips, thick hips, thick fingers, large breasts, dark complexion, and libidinous appetite); the Ratimañjarī thus describes her: — sthūlādharā sthūlanitaṃbabiṃbā sthūlāṃguliḥ sthūlakucā suśīlā . kāmotsukā gāḍharatipriyā ca nitāṃtabhoktrī (nitaṃbakharvā) khalu hastinī syāt (kariṇī matā sā) 8
hastin mfn. having hands, clever or dexterous with the h˚, RV.; AV.
(with mṛga, ‘the animal with a h˚ i.e. with a trunk’, an elephant; cf. dantah˚), ib.
Alternative readings
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