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सू यर् sūrya, s.m. The sun; (in Hindūpoetry) a symbolical expression for the number twelve (in allusion to the sun in the twelve signs of the zodiac);—the swallow-wort, Calotropis (or Asclepias) gigantea;—name of the son of Bali:—suryāst (˚ya+asta), s.m. Sunset:—sūryabhagwān, s.m. The sun personified (esp. as Vishṇu):—sūrya-tanay, s.m. lit. 'Son of the Sun'; an epithet of Karn; and of Sugrīv:—sūryatanayā, s.f. 'Daughter of the sun,' the river Yamunā(Jamnā):—sūrya-ćamak, s.f. Splendour or glare of the sun:—sūrya-dev, and sūryadevatā, s.m. The sun-deity, the sun personified as a deity:—sūrya-siddhānt, s.m. Name of a celebrated Sanskrit work on astronomy (by Varāmihir):—sūrya-sankrānti, s.f. (in Astron.), The sun's entrance into a new sign:—sūryakānt, s.m. lit. 'Sun-loved'; the sun-stone, sungem, crystal:—sūrya-kānti, s.f. (in Astron.) The course of the sun:—sūrya-grahaṇ, s.m. 'Sunseizure'; a solar eclipse:—sūrya-sūrya-mukhī, s.f. The sun-flower, Helianthus annuus; a kind of fan or sun-shade, etc. (see sūraj-mukkhī):—sūrya-manḍal, s.m. Thesun's orb or disc:—sūrya-maṇi, s.m. The sun-stone or sun-gem (=sūrya-kāṅt: it is supposed to yield its possessor whatever he may desire);—the shrub Hibiscus phœniceus:—sūrya-nārāyaṇ, s.m. The sun personified (esp. as Vishṇu); a proper name:—sūryoday (˚ya+ud˚), s.m. Sunrise:—sūrya-vaṅś, vulg. sūraj-bans, s.m. The solar race or dynasty:—sūrya-vaṅśī, vulg. sūrajbansī, adj. & s.m. Of or belonging to the soiar race;—a descendant of the Sun, a person of the solar race; name of a tribe of Kshatrlyas who claim descent from the sun.