m. any lucky or auspicious object, (especially) a kind of mystical cross or mark made on persons and things to denote good luck (it is shaped like a Greek cross with the extremities of the four arms bent round in the same direction;the majority of scholars regard it as a solar symbol;that is, as representing a curtailed form of the wheel of the Solar viṣṇu-, consisting of four spokes crossing each other at right angles with short fragments of the periphery of the circle at the end of each spoke turning round in one direction to denote the course of the Sun; according to to the late Sir Cunningham it has no connexion with sun-worship, but its shape represents a monogram or interlacing of the letters of the auspicious words su ast/i-[ svasti-]in the aśoka- characters;amongst jaina-s it is one of the 24 auspicious marks and is the emblem of the seventh arhat- of the present avasarpiṇī-)
m. a particular symbol made of ground rice and formed like a triangle (it is used in fumigating the image of durgā-, and is said to symbolize the liṅga-)
noun (masculine) a cock (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
a dish of a particular form (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
a kind of bard (who utters words of welcome or eulogy) (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
a kind of cake (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
a kind of mystical cross or mark made on persons and things to denote good luck (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
a kind of town layout
a kind of window (either round or resembling the Nandyāvarta type)
a libertine (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
a particular symbol made of ground rice and formed like a triangle (it is used in fumigating the image of Durgā) (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
a species of garlic (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
a triangular crest-jewel (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
any lucky or auspicious object (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
name of a Dānava (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
name of a poet (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
name of a serpent-demon (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
name of another man (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
name of one of Skanda's attendants (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
the crossing of the arms on the breast (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
the meeting of four roads (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
[medic.] a kind of bandage
[medic.] a kind of surgical instrument Frequency rank 6753/72933
noun (masculine neuter) a mansion or temple of a particular form (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
a particular mode of sitting practised by Yogins (in which the toes are placed in the inner hollow of the knees) (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
Marsilea Quadrifolia (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
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