హస్తిని

Telugu

Etymology

From Sanskrit हस्तिन् (hastin) +‎ -ఇ (-i).

Noun

హస్తిని • (hastini) f (plural హస్తినులు)

she elephant
The Hindu poets divide all beautiful women into four classes called (1) హస్తిని, (2) శంఖిని, (3) చిత్రిణి and (4) పద్మిని; which answer to Juno, Flora, Venus and Minerva, respectively: A woman of the stolid type.

References

"హస్తము" in Charles Philip Brown (1903) A Telugu-English dictionary, Madras: Promoting Christian Knowledge, page 1386

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