The sign of a vow.
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(a) Bark garment; (b) bark of trees.
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(a) Girdle. V. Manu, ii. 42; (b) mountain slope.
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Or, the moon.
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Or, with.
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(a) Kṛipā = compassion; (b) Kṛipa was the teacher of Açvatthāma, or Drauṇi.
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Or, Virgo, Cervus, the Pleiads and Draco.
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(a) Having twilight drunk up; (b) having many faults eradicated.
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Rajas = (a) dust; (b) passion.
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In performance of a vow. V. Manu, vi. 23.
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Or, ‘of the demon Naraka,’ slain by Kṛishṇa. Harivaṃça, 122.
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Or, had stars tawny at the junction of night and day.
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Lit., (a) Holding all his passions in firm restraint; (b) having the axle of its wheels firm.
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Lit., (a) He had a body wasted by secret performance of penance; (b) he brought to nought the enemies’ plans of battle by secret counsel and by his army.
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Or, having caves with whirlpools and the circles of shells oblique.
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Or, quays.
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(a) Perhaps Pushkara, the place of pilgrimage in Ajmere; (b) lotus-grove.
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(a) Having entrance into great halls; (b) being absorbed in Brahma.
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Or, salvation.
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Or, inflicted punishment; or, though intent on the Sāma veda, he was yet a daṇḍi; i. e., an ascetic who despises ritual.
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Having beautiful matted locks.
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(a) Having no left eye; (b) having no crooked glances.
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R. V., x. 190.
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Another kind of bread-tree.
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The Commentary explains it as ‘Veda.’
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