n. (according to some also m.andf(ā-).) salt (especially sea-salt, rock or fossil salt;but also factitious salt or salt obtained from saline earth) etc.
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 )
n. a factitious salt (either that prepared by evaporation from saline soil, or the medicinal kind[ equalsviḍ-lavaṇa-],a muriate of soda with a portion of sulphur and iron)
लवण a. [लू-ल्युट् पृषो˚ णत्वम्] 1 Saline, saltish, briny; यतो यतस्त्वाददीत लवणमेवैवम् Bṛi. Up.2.4.12. -2 Lovely, handsome. -णः 1 Saline taste. -2 The sea of salt water. -3 N. of a demon, son of Madhu, who was killed by Śatrughna; लवणेन विलुप्तेज्यास्तामिस्रेण तमभ्ययुः R.15.2,5,17,26. -4 N. of a hell. -णम् 1 Salt, seasalt. -2 A factitious salt. -Comp. -अन्तकः an epithet of Śatrughna. -अब्धिः the salt ocean. ˚जम् sea-salt. -अम्बुराशिः the ocean; आभाति वेला लवणाम्बुराशेः R.13. 15; V.1.17. -अम्भस् m. the ocean; स सेतुं बन्धयामास प्लवगैर्लवणाम्भसि R.12.7;17.54. (-n.) salt water. -आकारः 1 a salt-mine. -2 a receptacle of salt water; i. e. the sea. -3 (fig.) a mine of beauty. -आलयः the ocean. -उत्तमम् 1 rocksalt. -2 nitre. -उदः 1 the ocean. -2 the sea of salt water. -उदकः, -उदधिः, -जलः &c. the ocean; निनदमतिभृशं नराः प्रचक्रुर्लवणजलोद्भवसिंहनादमिश्रम् Mb.7. 39.31. -क्षारम् a kind of salt. -2 A particular preparation made of sugar-cane juice. -जलोद्भवः a muscle, shell. -त्रयम् a combination of three kinds of salt, namely सैन्धव, विड and रुचक; L. D. B. -धेनुः a cow symbolically represented with salt. -पाटलिका a saltbag; Buddh. -प्रगाढ a. strongly impregnated with salt. -मदः a kind of salt. -मेहः a kind of urinary disease. -शाकम् pickles; Gīrvāṇa. -समुद्रः the saltsea, the ocean.
a. briny, salt; m. N. of a demon; n. salt, sea-salt; grace, beauty (only --°ree;): -kalâyî, f. (prob. incorr. for lavana kalâpî) feeding-trough; -gala, a. having salt water, briny; m. sea, ocean;-galadhi, m., -gala-nidhi, m. salt sea, ocean; -gala½ud bhava, m. shell; -tâ, f. saltness; -toya, a. having salt water; m. ocean; -tva, n. salt ness; -vâri, a. having salt water; m. ocean; -samudra, m. salt sea, ocean.
Salt,' is never mentioned in the Rigveda, only once in the Atharvaveda, and not after that until the latest part of the Brāhmaṇas, where it is regarded as of extremely high value. This silence in the early period is somewhat surprising if the regions then occupied by the Indians were the Panjab and the Indus valley, where salt abounds; it would at first sight seem less curious if the home of the early Vedic Indian is taken to be Kurukçetra. It is, however, quite conceivable that a necessary commodity might happen to be passed over without literary mention in a region where it is very common, but to be referred to in a locality where it is not found, and consequently becomes highly prized.
noun (neuter) a kind of prameha
a particular mode of fighting (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
beauty (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
charm (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
grace (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
lustre (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
name of the Varṣa ruled by Lavaṇa
oversalted food (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
rock or fossil salt (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
salt (esp. seasalt) (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
lavaṇayantra Frequency rank 688/72933
noun (masculine) bala and asthi-deva (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
a camel
name of a hell (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
name of a king belonging to the family of Hariścandra (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
name of a Rākṣasa or Daitya (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
name of a river (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
name of a son of Jyotiṣmat
saline taste (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
saltness (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
the sea of salt water (in one of the seven oceans which surround the Dvīpas in concentric belts) (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
adjective beautiful (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
briny (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
graceful (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
saline (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
salt (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
tasteful (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
noun (masculine neuter) a kind of salt (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
a particular preparation made of sugar-cane juice (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 (neuter) a kind of black factitious and purgative salt (commonly called viḍlavaṇa) (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
sauvarcala Frequency rank 21076/72933
noun (neuter) black salt (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
factitious salt (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
muriate of soda with a portion of sulphur and iron (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
kācalavaṇa
sauvarcala
kṛṣṇalavaṇa Frequency rank 14111/72933
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