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VISHĀṆA-(KA)—The horn, the tusk, the wing of a building. Vishāṇaka-samāyukto nandanaḥ sa udāhṛitaḥ | ‘That (prāsāda) is called Nandana which is furnished with a vishāṇaka (wing)’. (Matsya-Purāṇa, chap. 269, v. 33).

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Matsyapurāṇa — Vyāsa, Sanskrit