○rātri f. 'Siva's night', N. of a popular fast and festival in honour of Siva (kept on the 14th of the dark half of the month Māgha or January-February with many solemn ceremonies, observed during the day and night, cf. śiva-caturdaśī) Rājat. RTL. 90 ; 428

• a form of Durgā (= mahā-kālī) Hcat.

• -kathā f. -kalpa m. -nirṇaya m. -pūjā f. -māhātmya n. -vratā n. -vrata-kathā f. -vrata-kalpa, m. -vratôdyāpana, n

• ○try-argha m. N. of wks

Sanskrit-English Dictionary, by M. Monier William