kzIraDAtrI
kṣīra-dhātrī , wet-nurse (in Divy 475.13, 16 replaced by stana-dh° , q.v. ), one of four kinds of nurses regularly provided for princes and rich menʼs sons: Mvy 9479 ; the others are standardly aṅka-dh° (aṃsa-dh°), mala-dh° , and krīḍanikā (dh°), qq.v. As a rule two of each sort, or eight in all, are provided, in a cliché common in Divy and Av : kṣīra° Divy 3.14 ; 58.12 ; 99.25 ; 271.19 ; 441.22 ; Av i.15.11 etc. But in Divy 475.12 only four, one of each kind, are provided; their functions are precisely defined 475.13 ff.