m. (perhaps also am-) n. the border or end of a garment, especially of a woman's garment, of a veil, shawl. (in Bengali, a strip of country, district.)
n. black salt (a medicinal salt prepared by calcining fossil salt and the fruit of the Emblic myrobalan together;it consists chiefly of muriate of soda with a small quantity of iron, lime, and sulphur, and is a tonic aperient )
m. "black mountain", Name of the mountain raivata- (part of the western portion of the vindhya- chain;also one of the nine principal chains that separate the nine divisions or varṣa-s of the known world)
mfn. possessing 5 characteristics (said of the purāṇa-s, which ought strictly to comprehend 5 topics, viz. the creation of the universe, its destruction and renovation, the genealogy of gods and patriarchs, the reigns of the manu-s, and the history of the solar and lunar races)
चल a. [चल्-अच्] 1 (a) Moving trembling, shaking, tremulous, rolling (as eyes &c.); चलापाङ्गां दृष्टिं स्पृशसि Ś.1.24; चलकाकपक्षकैरमात्यपुत्रैः R.3.28 waving; Bh.1.16. (b) Movable (opp. स्थिर), moving; चले लक्ष्ये Ś.2.5; परिचयं चललक्ष्यनिपातने R.9.49. -2 Unsteady, fickle, inconstant, loose, unfixed; दयितास्वनवस्थितं नृणां न खलु प्रेम चलं सुहृज्जने Ku.4.28; प्रायश्चलं गौरवमाश्रितेषु 3.1. -3 Frail, transitory, perishable; चला लक्ष्मीश्चलाः प्राणाश्चलं जीवितयौवनम् Bh.3.128. -4 Confused. -लः 1 Trembling, shaking, agitation. -2 Wind. -3 Quicksilver. -4 The supreme being. -ला 1 Lakṣmī, the goddess of wealth. -2 Lightning. -3 A kind of perfume. -Comp. -अचल a. 1 movable and immovable. -2 fickle, unsteady, very transitory (= अतिचल); चलाचले च संसारे धर्म एको हि निश्चलः Bh.3.128; लक्ष्मीमिव चलाचलाम् Ki.11.3 (चलाचला = चञ्चला Malli.); कस्य न भवति चलाचलं धनम् Mk.2.14; N.1.6; चलाचलैरनुपदमाहताः खुरैः Śi. (-लः) a crow. -आतङ्कः rheumatism. -आत्मन् a. inconstant, fickle-minded. -इन्द्रिय a. 1 sensitive. -2 sensual. -इषुः one whose arrow flies unsteadily or misses the mark, a bad archer. -कर्णः the true distance of a planet from the earth. -चञ्चुः the Chakora bird. -चित्त a. fickle-minded. -दलः, -पत्रः the Aśvattha tree; बिल्वै- श्चलदलैरपि Parṇāl.4.62; लीलाचलाचलं भाले हैमं चलदलच्छदम् (Mar. पिंपळपान) Śiva. B.6.83. ˚च्छदः An ornament worn on the forehead, having the shape of the leaf of the Aśvattha tree. -सन्धिः movable articulation of the bones.
चलन a. चल् भावे ल्युट्] Moving, tremulous, trembling, shaking. -नः 1 A foot. -2 A deer. -नम् Trembling, shaking or shaking motion; चलनात्मकं कर्म T. S.; हस्त˚, जानु˚ &c.; तरलदृगञ्चलचलनमनोहरवदनजनितरतिरागम् Gīt. 11. -2 Turning or leaving off. -3 Roaming, wandering. -नी 1 A short petticoat worn by common women. -2 The rope for tying an elephant.
अचल a. Steady, immovable, motionless, fixed, permanent; चित्रन्यस्तमिवाचलं चामरम् V.1.5; तपसे$धिवस्तु- मचलामचलः Ki.6.18; समाधावचला बुद्धिस्तदा योगमवाप्स्यसि Bg. 2.53.; यत्र स्थाणुरिवाचलः Ś.7.11. immovable. -लः 1 A mountain; (rarely) a rock. -2 A bolt or pin (शङ्कु). -3 The number seven. -4 N. of Śiva, of the soul, of the first of the 9 deified persons among Jainas. -ला The earth (so called because the earth is immovable according to one view, or, according to Ārya Bhaṭṭa who rejects this view, अचलाः पर्वताः सन्त्यत्र, अस्त्यर्थे अच्; अचलत्वात् स्वकक्षातो बहिर्गमनाभावाद्वा). cf. अचलः पर्वते वृक्षे कीलावसुधयोः स्त्रियाम् Nm. -लम् Brahman. -Comp -कन्यका, - सुता, -दुहिता, -तनया &c. N. of Pārvat&imcr;, daughter of the Himālaya mountain. -कीला (ब.) the earth (immovably fixed or pinned. -ज, -जात a. mountain-born. (-जा-जाता) N. of Pārvatī. -त्विष् a. [अचला त्विट् यस्य] of fixed or permanent lustre or colour. (-m, ˚ट्) a cuckoo (बहुप्रक्षालनेनापि मालिन्यानपगमात् स्थिरा त्विट्). (f.) permanent colour. -द्विष् m. [अचलान् द्वेष्टि, द्विष् -क्विप्] the enemy of mountains, epithet of Indra who clipped off their wings. -धृतिः f. a metre of four lines of 16 short _x001F_1syllables each (गीत्यार्या) -पतिः, -राट् lord of mountains, N. of Himālaya or Meru; समुद्र इव दुर्बोधः सत्त्वेनाचल- राडिव Bhāg 4.22.58. so ˚अधिपः, ˚श्रेष्ठः. -सप्तमी N. of a book in the भविष्योत्तरपुराण; the 7th day of the bright half of Āśvina.
अञ्चलः लम् [अञ्चति प्रान्तम्; अञ्च्-अलच्] 1 The border or end (of a garment), skirt or hem (Mar. पदर); क्षीणा- ञ्चलमिव पीनस्तनजघनायाः Udbhaṭa. विमुञ्च ममाञ्चलम् Bv.2.21. -2 Corner or outer angle (as of the eye); दृगञ्चलैः पश्यति केवलं मनाक् ibid.; यदि चलाञ्चले लोचने Mv.6.9.
निश्चल a. 1 Immovable, steady, fixed, still. -2 Invariable, unchangeable; श्रुतिविप्रतिपन्ना ते यदा स्थास्यति निश्चला Bg.2.53. -ला The earth. -Comp. -अङ्ग a. firm. (-ङ्गः) 1 a species of crane. -2 a rock or mountain.
प्रचलनम् 1 Shaking, trembling. -2 Retreat, flight. -3 Circulation, currency.
प्रचलित pracalita (प्रचलत् pracalat)
प्रचलित (प्रचलत्) a. 1 Shaken, moved, set in motion. -2 Moving about; एतस्मिन् प्रचलाकिनां प्रचलतामुद्वेजिताः कूजितैः U.2.29. -3 Wandering, roaming. -4 Having set out or proceeded. -5 Customary, recognized or received as authority. -6 Current, prevalent. -7 confused, bewildered. -तम् Going away, departure.
m. Western Moun tain (a fabulous mountain behind which the sun is supposed to set: cp. asta½akala); -½ambu dhi, m. western ocean; -½itara, a. (opposite of west), eastern; -½uttara, a. north-western: -pûrva, a. western, northern, or eastern.
noun (masculine) a sprout (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
quicksilver (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
shoot (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
time
wind (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
wind (in med.) (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
adjective confused (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
disturbed (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
fluctuating (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
loose (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
moving (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
perishable (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
shaking (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
trembling (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
unsteady (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
noun (neuter) action (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
function (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
roaming (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
shaking (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
shaking motion (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
trembling (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
turning off from (abl.) (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
walking about (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
wandering (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
adjective movable (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
moving (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
moving on feet (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
shaking (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
tremulous (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
wanton (a woman) (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
verb (class 10 parasmaipada) to agitate (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
to cause to move (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
to push (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
noun (masculine) a bolt or pin (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
a mountain (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
name of a Devarshi (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
name of a son of Subala
name of Śiva and of the first of the nine deified persons (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
rock (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
the number seven (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
noun (neuter) black salt (a medicinal salt prepared by calcining fossil salt and the fruit of the Emblic myrobalan together) (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
noun (masculine) a lover (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
libertine (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
name of an Asura (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
the wind (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
adjective flickering (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
inconsiderate (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
inconstant (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
moving to and fro (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
unsteady (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
adjective changeable (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
ever-moving (the wheel of Saṃsāra) (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
loose (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
movable (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
moving to and fro (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
tremulous (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
unfixed (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
unsteady (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
adjective fixed (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
immovable (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
invariable (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
motionless (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
steady (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
unchangeable (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
adjective circulating (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
current (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
customary (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
moving (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
shaking (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
tremulous (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
what goes well or widely (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
noun (neuter) being current or customary (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
circulating (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
flight (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
going well or widely (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
retiring (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
rocking (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
shaking (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
swaying (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
trembling (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
adjective conceited (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
moving about (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
shaking (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
unsteady (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
noun (masculine neuter) alkali (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
natron (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
sochal salt (prepared by boiling down soda with emblic myrobolan) (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
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