འཁོར་ཉན་

འཁོར་ཉན། (Wyl. 'khor nyan ) Pron.: khor nyen

• Skt. निषादः, niṣāda, Pron.: nishada. From Sanskrit: N. of a wild non-Āryan tribe in India (described as hunters, fishermen, robbers) | 'the Bheels' | a man of any degraded tribe, an out-caste (•esp. the son of a Brāhman by a Śūdra woman) | the progenitor of the Ni-shad (said to have sprung from the thigh of Vena) | (in music) N. of the first (more properly the last or 7th) note of the gamut | N. of a Kalpa [Mahavyutpatti] [Sanskrit] MVP MW