sénā f. (fr. √2. si) a missile, dart, spear RV. AV

• N. of Indra's wife (or his thunderbolt so personified) TS. AitBr. Vait

• an army, armament, battle-array, armed force (also personified as wife of Kārttikeya

• ifc. also sena n.) RV. &c. &c

• a small army (consisting of 3 elephants, 3 chariots, 9 horse, and 15 foot) L

• any drilled troop or band or body of men Bālar

• a kind of title or addition to the names of persons (also names of courtezans) Sāh. (cf. Pāṇ. 4-1, 152 &c.)

• N. of a courtezan (abridged fr. kubera-senā) HPariś

• of the mother of Śambhava (the third Arhat of the present Avasarpiṇī L