light; splendour; radiance; beautiful appearance; the shadow of the gnomon on a sun-dial; the wife of the sun; light personified; name of an Apsaras; name of a daughter of Svarbhānu and mother of Nahuṣa; name of the city of Kubera; name of a kind of metre; name of several wks; name of a wife of Sagara; mother of 60000 sons