vajra (mn)
Meanings
- a diamond (thought to be as hard as the thunderbolt or of the same substance with it)
- a kind of metal
- a kind of penance (feeding for a month on only barley prepared with cow's urine)
- a thunderbolt (esp. that of Indra)
- sour gruel
= vajramūṣā- [medic.] name of an antidote
= abhra- = vaikrānta
- a kind of talc
