कालरात्री — {rātrī} f. a dark night W##(for 2. {-rātri}, p. 278, col. 3.)
कालरात्री — {rātrī} f. the night of all-destroying time, night of destruction at the end of the world (often personified and identified with Durgā or with one of her Śaktis) MBh. R. &c##the night of a man's death Pañcad##a particular night in the life of a man (on the seventh day of the seventh month of the seventy-seventh year, after which period a man is exempt from attention to the usual ordinances) L##N. of a Brāhman woman (skilled in magic) Kathās. xx, 104