durgā f. (of ○ga, q.v.) the Indigo plant or Clitoria Ternatea L.

• a singing bird (= śyāmā) L.

• N. of two rivers MBh. vi, 337

• 'the inaccessible or terrific goddess', N. of the daughter of Himavat and wife of Śiva (also called Umā, Pārvatī &c., and mother of Kārttikeya and Gaṇêśa, cf. pūjā) TĀr. x, 2, 3 (d"ṣ devii) MBh. &c

• of a princess Rājat. iv, 659, and of other women