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िहरण्य hiraṇya, s.m. Gold (crude bullion or wrought); silver; any precious metal (unwrought); wealth, property; substance; imperishable matter; semen virile; a cowrie:—hiraṇyāksh (˚ya+ak˚), s.m. Golden-eyed,' name of a celebrated Daityaor demon, twin-brother of Hiranya-kaśipu (he was killed by Vishṇu in his third avatārin the form of a boar):—hiraṇya-retā, s.m. 'Having golden seed'; an epithet of Agui or fire; of the sun; and of Śiva:—hiraṇya-kaśipu, and hiraṇya-kaśyap, s.m. Clothed in gold'; name of a king of the Daityas, celebrated for his blasphemous impiety (he was the brother of Hiraṇyāksh, and son of Kaśyap and Diti; both the brothers were slain by Vishṇu):—hiraṇya-garbh, s.m. A name of Brahmā(so called as born from a golden egg supposed to have been formed out of the seed deposited in the waters when they were produced as the first creation of the Selfexistent):—hiraṇya-vāh, vulg. hiraṇya-bāhu, s.m. (lit.'bearing gold'), An epithet of the river Son;—an epithet of Śiva.